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)Plots(1)
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted and unable to be a pilot, he becomes one of the world's most accomplished airplane designers, experiencing key historical events in an epic tale of love, perseverance and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world. Bring home the film that has dazzled fans and critics around the globe. (Madman Entertainment)
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While the narrative exhibition is old-fashioned, with no rush and calmly repeating the necessary creative or emotional moments, animation, on the contrary, is a combination of unimaginable squeaking with the most advanced possible details. I know that from the perspective of a personal resume, Hayao 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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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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