And for Miyazaki, his own personal history was incorporated into the film. Katsuji Miyazaki, his father, was involved in producing airplane parts for Japan during WWII.

His father, Katsuji Miyazaki, made a comfortable living from his company Miyazaki Airplane, which made parts for Japan’s Mitsubishi fighters. The young Miyazaki inherited, ...

See, his father, Katsuji Miyazaki, ran the Miyazaki Airplane company, which produced the tail fins for Japanese fighter planes during World War II, and the young Hayao would often visit his father ...

His father, Katsuji Miyazaki, was the director of Miyazaki Airplane, a company that manufactured rudders for fighter planes. This connection to aviation would later influence many of his films, ...

Miyazaki’s father Katsuji, an aeronautical engineer, was a key influence whose impact has been felt in every one of the animator’s major works. Miyazaki’s father ran a family business, ...

Miyazaki's uncle was the owner of Miyazaki planes while his father Katsuji Miyazaki served as the director in the company which built rudders for fighter aircrafts during World War II.

But Miyazaki’s own father, Katsuji, was director of a company — Miyazaki Airplane — which manufactured parts for the Zero; and his mother, like the fictional Horikoshi’s ...