Rent-an-Elf

Plots: Jiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer. As WWII begins, fighter aircraft designed by him end up getting used by the Japanese Empire against its foes. Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. An aviation-obsessed engineer named Jirô Horikoshi has loved the aesthetics, spirit, and science of flight for as long as he can remember. For years, he’s been designing and building his dream plane, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and it’s finally completed. But Jiro’s dreams come crashing down when he learns, to his horror, that his creation will be used for combat in World War II.