Short answers, pulled from the story.
The main character in The Wind Rises is Jiro Horikoshi, a young aircraft designer who dreams of building beautiful planes but cannot fly due to his nearsightedness. He spends his life creating aircraft for the Imperial Navy, including the Mitsubishi Ka-14 and the A6M Zero fighter.
The Wind Rises was released in Japan on the 20th of July 2013. It became the highest-grossing Japanese film of 2013 and was distributed internationally by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through its Touchstone Pictures banner.
The Wind Rises is based on Hayao Miyazaki's 2009 manga of the same name, which continues his Delusional Notes series. The story draws from Tatsuo Hori's 1937 semi-autobiographical novel The Wind Has Risen and incorporates historical accounts of Horikoshi's aircraft development up to 1935.
The 32-track film score for The Wind Rises was composed and conducted by Joe Hisaishi and performed by the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. The soundtrack also includes Yumi Matsutoya's 1973 song Hikō-ki Gumo and was released in Japan on the 17th of July 2013 by Tokuma Japan Communications.
Hayao Miyazaki created The Wind Rises as a personal project inspired by a quote from Jiro Horikoshi stating that he only wanted to make something beautiful. The film explores the relationship between art and war, and the cost of progress, while serving as Miyazaki's final feature before he reversed his decision to retire.