Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.

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Cast

Jirou Horikoshi

Hideaki Anno

Nahoko Satomi

Miori Takimoto

Kayo Horikoshi

Mirai Shida

Hans Castorp

Steve Alpert

Caproni

Mansai Nomura II

Hattori

Jun Kunimura

Kirou Honjou

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Kurokawa

Masahiko Nishimura

Satomi

Morio Kazama

Jirou no Haha

Keiko Takeshita

Kinu

Haruka Shibuya

Katayama