The movie "The Wind Rises" is set in what country?

The movie "The Wind Rises" is set in Japan.

Hayao Miyazaki’s 2013 Studio Ghibli film follows a fictionalized version of Jiro Horikoshi, the Japanese aeronautical engineer who designed the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter. Its story unfolds across Japan during the interwar period, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the country’s rapid industrial and military development during the 1930s.

The film combines historical biography with romance and imagination. Horikoshi was a real person, but the relationship between Jiro and Nahoko Satomi is fictionalized and draws inspiration from Tatsuo Hori’s 1937 novel The Wind Has Risen. The film’s title comes from a line associated with the French poet Paul Valéry.

Some viewers mistake the film for a straightforward wartime adventure because of its aircraft designs. It is better described as a historical drama about engineering, ambition, love, and the moral tension of creating beautiful machines for destructive purposes. The Japanese setting is central to that tension, especially as the country moves toward World War II.