The Wind Rises. Jiro is LII.
Set mostly during the 1930s and loosely based on the story of Jiro Horikoshi, an aeronautical engineer and designer of the Mitsubishi Zero fighter. The story tackles the theme of wanting to create in spite of the potentially destructive uses of that creation. The Mitsubishi Zero was a master-stroke of engineering innovation, combining long-range and manoeuvrability, and became legendary as one of the most lethal fighters of World War Two.
Jiro is stoic, lucid, and unconventional and is IMO a poster-boy for LII. His personal life was, however, highly fictionalized:
Set mostly during the 1930s and loosely based on the story of Jiro Horikoshi, an aeronautical engineer and designer of the Mitsubishi Zero fighter. The story tackles the theme of wanting to create in spite of the potentially destructive uses of that creation. The Mitsubishi Zero was a master-stroke of engineering innovation, combining long-range and manoeuvrability, and became legendary as one of the most lethal fighters of World War Two.
Jiro is stoic, lucid, and unconventional and is IMO a poster-boy for LII. His personal life was, however, highly fictionalized: