Directed by:
Hayao MiyazakiScreenplay:
Hayao MiyazakiComposer:
Joe HisaishiCast:
Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Jun Kunimura, Mansai Nomura, Masahiko Nishimura, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Morio Kazama, Mirai Shida, Shinobu Otake, Keiko Takeshita (more)VOD (1)
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As a young boy, the bespectacled Jiro Horikoshi (voice of Hideaki Anno) dreams of flying a plane but when he learns he will be unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight, he instead decides to be an aircraft designer. On September 1st 1923 Jiro is travelling by train when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes. He assists fellow passenger Naoko (Miori Takimoto) and her maid who suffers an injury. He doesn't meet Naoko again till many years later after he has graduated university and has worked on various designing jobs, without finding much success. The two fall for each other and become engaged but Naoko is suffering from tuberculosis. While they try to enjoy the time they have together Jiro continues to work on designing his first successful plane. (StudioCanal UK)
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Miyazaki's dreamy poem, really wonderfully animated and with reliably beautiful music by Hisashi. I would say that as much as - or more than - about Horikoshi, The Wind Rises is a trip into the soul of Miyazaki himself, and an account of the uneasy life in Japan at the time. Such a biography, idealized as it is, may be the envy of many other Horikoshi figures who have seen only ordinary feature films without a shred of imagination and following a tired template.
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While the narrative structure is old-fashioned, with no rush and calmly repeating the necessary creative or emotional moments, the animation, on the contrary, is a combination of an unimaginable waste of time with the most advanced possible details. I know that in terms of his personal resume, Hayao Miyazaki has significantly adjusted or poetized some things, but fortunately, I am here as a viewer and not as a historian or nitpicker. A royal spectacle in which nothing happens for most of the two hours – and yet I was emotionally exhausted like I haven't been in a long time. The combination of Miyazaki and airplanes is immortal.
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