Context: two people who developed extremely destructive weapons, were horrified by their use, and had biographical films made about them.
Jiro Horikoshi was a Japanese aviation engineer who designed the dreaded Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen (‘Zero’ to allied pilots). J Robert Oppenheimer was a US physicist who led the development of the nuclear bomb.
Note that The Wind Rises is only partly based on Horikoshi’s life, and also borrows from Hori Tatsuo’s semi-autobiographical novel The Wind has Risen (itself named after a French poem) and director Hayao Miyazaki’s childhood experiences of WW2.
That last statement is disputed - the Soviet declaration of war probably had a greater effect on Japan’s surrender. In any case, Oppenheimer was definitely horrified by the atomic bombings.
