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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Nomura Mansai

Nomura Mansai appears in The Wind Rises, the film adaptation of the book by Hori Tatsuo The Wind Has Risen, first published in 1937.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Wind Rises. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1937 book, The Wind Has Risen
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The Wind Has Risen
Hori Tatsuo, 1937
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The Wind Rises
Hayao Miyazaki, 2013

In 1918, a young Jiro Horikoshi longs to become a pilot, but his nearsightedness prevents it. In the dream, Caproni tells him that he has never flown a plane in his life, and that building planes is better than flying them. Five years later, Jiro is traveling by train to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University and meets a young girl, Naoko Satomi, traveling with her maid.