Video essay compiles Miyazaki's most enchanting flight scenes

A video essay by Zach Prewitt for Fandor assembles the most captivating flight sequences from Hayao Miyazaki's filmography, spanning birds, airplanes, magical characters, dragons, broomsticks, and castles. Miyazaki's lifelong passion for flight is evident in nearly all his feature films, often featuring extended sequences where characters soar through the sky, sometimes magically, sometimes aboard real vehicles. The culmination is reached in 'The Wind Rises' (2013), which tells the story of Jirō Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer and inventor of the Mitsubishi A5M and Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft used by the Japanese Navy during World War II. Aeronautics has been part of Miyazaki's biography since childhood: his father headed Miyazaki Airplane, a company that produced aircraft components. The video essay includes commentary from the master: 'When you look from above, many things reveal themselves before your eyes.'