Morten_5 Written and directed by Japanese maestro Hayao Miyazaki, "The Wind Rises" (2013), based on Miyazaki's manga, is his eleventh feature film. There's an almost ungraspable beauty to the animations and the story is an inspiring and heartwarming one./Mårten Larsson

masoudhoore Comparing to his other fantastic movies, this movie doesn't have any complex abstract concept. The theme is love to work and family, and is like reading a novel about love and war. The theme by itself looks fine but in practice it couldn't catch the audience eye to follow it to the end. It has similarities to Whisper of the heart, with fewer ideas.Not suggested for first Miyazaki movie watcher. It would be better to start from the best ones Spirited away and Princess Mononoke.Great people do mistakes!

SnoopyStyle Jiro Horikoshi is a young boy who dreams of flying machines. In 1918, he's given a magazine and he starts admiring Italian aircraft designer Giovanni Battista Caproni. Caproni would be in his dreams as he works to design advanced planes. There is a massive earthquake and subsequent fires which devastates Tokyo. Jiro helps Nahoko and her mother. Banks are closing and the economy is collapsing. Kids are starving but Jiro gets a job at aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi with his friend Honjo. When their plane Falcon is rejected, they are sent to Germany to study Junkers' designs. They return to Japan to produce the most advanced fighters in the world for the military despite being behind and much poorer than Germany. There are the secret police and the mysterious anti-war Castorp. Jiro would meet again the love of his life Nahoko.The great filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki returns to deliver the fictionalized historical biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the Zero. There is a simple beauty and an ever-present sadness to this movie. I didn't know the subject of this movie but it becomes obvious that the timeline is converging on a delicate era. It fills the movie with a sense of inevitable doom.

christineyoon Hayao Miyazaki had made many magical, fascinating animated motion pictures in his lifetime with Studio Ghibli. Some of these fantasy films include Spirited Away, Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, and The Cat Returns. His last film, The Wind Rises, was recently released, and is like none of his previous animations. In the other movies, the characters are set in a bizarre, surreal, magnificent world on an unusual mission. In The Wind Rises, however, there is no unseen, amazing world. Rather, the story is set in Japan, and it revolves around an airplane designer, Jiro Horikoshi. What Miyazaki does to bring the story to life is focus and discover the beauty in times most people don't see beauty. For example, work can be drudgery and an annoying aspect of life. However, Miyazaki sees work as a time of inspiration and an opportunity to display one's skills. The rain can be gross and make one feel dank, but Miyazaki sees it as a beautiful experience and an opportunity to hold close to a loved one under a small umbrella. By focusing on the different views, Miyasaki had made The Wind Rises just as enchanting as his surreal animations. The Wind Rises is extremely captivating in animation and thought. The story was based on true events, so it was realistic, yet it shows that life can be fantastic when looked at in the right perspective. In this picture, Jiro Horikoshi has vivid dreams of designing airplanes throughout his life. Along his journey, he faces a devastating Japanese earthquake and later meets his soul mate, who was dying. In the end, Jiro builds the "Zero" jet, later reminiscing about the creation and speaking sadly by the thousands of deaths caused by the "Zero" planes in the military. This film elicits giggles, smiles, and tears, getting to the hearts of the people.