Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki is perhaps our only children’s auteur, and his new release, The Wind Rises , is the saddest film of the year—because it is likely his last.

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, ...

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

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, ...

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 ...