Audience reviews
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Jxbinha
The Wind Rises is a beautiful and bittersweet film that stayed with me long after it ended. It is not the kind of story that relies on constant action or dramatic moments; instead, it takes its time and lets you follow Jirou's life, his dreams, and the difficult reality surrounding them.
What I found most interesting was the contrast between Jirou's passion for creating beautiful airplanes and the purpose those creations would eventually serve. He is not portrayed as someone driven by war, but as a person completely in love with engineering and the idea of flight. That conflict between pursuing your dream and dealing with the consequences of what comes from it makes the story much more complex than I initially expected.
The relationship between Jirou and Nahoko was also beautiful and heart…
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This is a beautiful movie! Sometimes I felt the pacing was a bit off and some of the story beats are wrapped up too hastily in my opinion, but overall it's very good. I think part of the reason I felt that way is because this movie is based off of a real life historical figure that helped build and design the planes that were used in world war 2. I especially love how 'alive' the planes feel in the movie and how different they all are. This movie is both joyful and sad. There are a couple parts in the movie that really tugged at my heart, but there were also some incredibly beautiful scenes that are going to stick with me for a long time because of how wondrous they are. I highly recommend especially if you love airplanes lol
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The Wind Rises is a truly wonderful film, the kind that quietly reaches into your heart and holds it. There are moments that are so delicate, so human, that you can’t help but feel moved. I found myself applauding the film again and again, not just for its breathtaking execution, but for the depth and courage of the idea behind it. Miyazaki tells a story that is both gentle and devastating, filled with beauty yet shadowed by the weight of reality. The animation is stunning, the music is haunting, and the emotional atmosphere builds so naturally that you barely notice how deeply it’s affecting you until your eyes start to sting. It’s one of those films that stays with you long after it ends, thoughtful, bittersweet, and incredibly beautiful. At times, I genuinely almost cried, simply becaus…
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Animation, sound and character design are great, And it’s obivous that’s Studio Ghibli we are talking.
The only issue(I faced) is the structure they presented the story. The main character(Jirou) goes through three stages of his life – his childhood, university, and career — building planes for Mitsubishi. But when it comes down to the story, the main plot is the last one, and the first one was shown pretty good but the second could be provided far more efficiently by other means(if they really want to).
Jirou’s childhood was shown very good(in my opinion), and last one is also good
But his university life can be trimmed so much, because only one character(in the university) has emotional attachment to the our main character or even on of the character who was in the story who continues fu…
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The movie turned out quite different from what I expected based on the synopsis, and it feels more like a documentary than a traditional Ghibli film, which is admittedly refreshing, but also not the easiest experience for viewers accustomed to the studio’s magical elements. The opening gave me the impression that we were heading into another magical-realism Ghibli story, but instead, it functions more like a prologue documentary to a movie like Oppenheimer, but not on the same level. It’s almost as if Miyazaki told this story long before Nolan even thought about it. The childhood segment is well done, but it ends up having little connection to the rest of the film. Jirō’s family barely influences him at all, and we hardly even see his sister unless she specifically seeks him out.
That’s r…
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The Wind Rises tells a story about dreams that soar beautifully yet carry shadows beneath their wings. At first glance, the film seems to celebrate the romance of aviation and the pursuit of creative ambition. Beneath that surface, however, lies a more reflective look at the cost of chasing a dream in a world moving toward conflict. The narrative follows Jiro Horikoshi, a young man who dreams of designing airplanes despite poor eyesight preventing a career as a pilot. Rather than abandoning that dream, Jiro pursues engineering, believing that beautiful aircraft can still be created even without sitting in the cockpit. Inspiration comes through imagined conversations with Giovanni Battista Caproni, who appears in dreamlike sequences encouraging the idea that aircraft can be both technologic…
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It was a really great movie in the first half. It was a 10/10 for me. But after the protagonist finally confesses his love, the movie doesn't stay the same. It becomes very boring after that and loses the touch that had me hooked in the first place, but I will still highly recommend it. The animation is gorgeous, especially that earthquake scene and all the crowd scenes. All the characters are very well written, especially the protagonist. It is very emotional at times and you might cry watching it. Give this movie a try, you might like it more than I did.
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The movie is so good because of the great character building and how they act, what they want to achieve, and how their goals drive the story.
I really like when Ghibli sets their stories in historically accurate settings.
I also appreciate how they talk about World War I and World War II — because studios like Ghibli can give a deeper understanding of people chance because of war.
I really recommend this movie.
To be honest, I don’t understand why it isn’t as popular as other Ghibli films — maybe it’s because of the more mature nature of the story? or I am just a little delulu and many people like it.
I also love the dream sequences and the overall atmosphere.
The movie just feels a certain way when I watch it — and I feel deeply connected to it, in a weird but meaningful way.
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Overall, the highest degree of “good” I can think of.
I let this movie sit with me for a while, to see how memorable it actually was. There isn't much to say about it for me.
The split between aspirations, and love, and the hardships to balance it out, while a tragedy is building up on both sides. As a romance movie, it's actually pretty great. The maturity with which the themes of an impossible love are dealt with. We aspire to create, even if such creation contradicts our wishes to not destroy.
In the midst of the army, scientific discoveries, engineering, a man simply wishes to love, to create, to follow his passions. It is pretty good, and it juggles the themes well, but then, that's about it. One side of the movie doesn't interest me that much, since sure there's “stakes” if he fai…
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Since I’m currently watching all Studio Ghibli movies, I finally decided to give this one a try as well since I’ve planned to do so for ages. And despite my worries and concerns, I was positively surprised by how much I actually enjoyed it.
Story 8/10
The story follows Jiro Horikoshi who dreams of becoming an aeronautical engineer and as the story progresses, we actually see his dream come true but not in the way he might had expected (or hoped). Since it’s a story based on a real life person and events, I’m not sure how accurate some of the details are and I’m being honest that I’m not putting much research into writing this review, but there were some interesting aspects to it and I’d guess that at lest historically it’s accurate. I don’t particularly enjoy movies or books that are se…
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The best way I can describe this film is eerily light. There's a degree of distance that the film takes from its subject matter, to the point that it's almost difficult to see this film and its setting for what it is: an engineer designing planes that would later be used as bombers, fighters, and, most notoriously, Kamikaze aircraft in World War II. It's not that the film doesn't acknowledge it - far from it, as the film never really lets you forget what's on the horizon and how these planes are going to be used - but rather that the film exhibits a sense of distance from that subject matter.
Maybe that can be chalked up to the lead whose role in all this is to play the talented engineer trying to design a better plane, vanishing into literal flights of fancy in his dreams. That almost s…
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"The wind rises, we must try to live" - (9.8)
My favorite work by Studio Ghibli. I have a great feeling for this film, I absorbed it in a very intense way. The message transmitted is very beautiful and rich. I loved the succession of events, the film's writing, which is phenomenal, with very well crafted dialogues, making the protagonist's relationship with each character unique, characterizing the characters very well. The historical context is applied in an excellent way, bringing up several questions to be thought about.
The direction is extremely competent and I don't even need to praise the studio's animation, but in this film I felt that it reached its peak, when compared to other animations. The beautiful scenes, extremely well directed, with this fantastic animation, helped a lot…
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While there are many excellent reviews of this film, I felt that many of them overlooked something crucial to the film: aviation.
More than anything else, The Wind Rises is probably the best film I've ever seen for describing the joy and wonder of flight. Seriously, the anticipation of preparing an aircraft to take off, the awe as it leaps into the sky - this movie nails that damn near perfectly. If you're into planes whatsoever that alone should be a good enough reason to watch it.
And, of course, being a Ghibli film, the animation, music, aesthetic and cinematography are on point - I feel like that's to be expected viewing a film from this studio. And, while some people had misgivings about the plot, I would argue it's a well execute slow-burn with interesting themes - without getting…
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"with the face like he's carrying the future of japanese aviation" (sleeps average)
Kaze Tachinu is a solid 9. Proof that more modern Ghibli films have become very toned-down and safe compared to past films. And I don't mean that there is less amounts of questionable over-work, I mean that the newer digital films are playing more the safe side in the part of its story telling.
Kaze Tachinu has the Ghibli touch, very apparent it's cleaner digital form, but sadly the story as well as the characters have trouble holding the same interest factor.
Ghibli in the digital age has grown to only highlight the flaws more than traditional animation. Where as past films could get away with blander characters and scenes through a higher production value, newer films reveal the lack of characters, the…
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The movie's visuals are as always very pleasing just like other ghibli movies, the ost is so soothing and as for the story, it is originally based on "Jiro Horikoshi the chief engineer of many japanese fighter planes from WW2" tho the movie adds a little more to it since ghibli adapted the movie from Tatsuo Hori's 1930 novel "The wind has risen" and that's where this movie got its name The wind rises. From all the Hayao miyazaki's work this one feels a bit different and special, tho his all works gives a different feeling i still can't get over how the movie depicts, connect from dreams to real world, sure give it a try guys.
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'The Wind Rises' is an extremely beautiful film which is based on an highly fictionalized version of the early life of Jiro Hirokoshi, an aeronautical engineer. Through the character of Jiro, Mr. Hayao Miyazaki inspires us to dream and pursue those dreams with seriousness and devotion. Miyazaki has elegantly blended dreams and reality in this movie which is worth praising. The film perfectly captures the economic condition and political situation of Japan during that time period. The soothing background score coupled with the charming plot give a wholesome experience. The romantic aspect is also good and things are not overdone.
One shortcoming in this movie is that although the main character receives decent characterization, the other characters do not.
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Miyazaki's penultimate movie is a masterpiece that focuses on his love of aircraft and the people involved in the growth of the industry through the lens of Jiro Horikoshi. Horikoshi was a real man, but this movie takes plenty of liberties with the facts. Or so I've heard. The movie is undoubtedly a celebration of aircraft, the dreamers who turned mankind's dream to fly into a reality. But it also meditates on the "cursed" nature of this dream. The human cost of its corruption by the malicious and ruthless war machine.
Characters: 11/10
The characters and their arcs are the whole reason why this is my favorite Miyazaki movie. Jiro is a quiet and brilliant guy who harbored the dream to fly since he was a child. His kindness and gentle nature are demonstrated throughout the movie, which ma…
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It's always a bit fascinating to see WWII history depicted from the Axis side of things as an American. In most American propagan- I mean media... you see Germany depicted as a soulless evil war mongering country who wanted to kill all non-Germans and the Japanese as a menacing Imperial force who wanted world domination. But some people just wanted to make airplanes, or at least that's what the plot here would have you believe. A bit of revisionist history from a country that now deeply regrets it's 20th century military endeavors, perhaps. But regardless of its historical accuracy I think it's a nice message anyway.
Loosely based on the real life story of engineer Horikoshi Jirou, we get to see the war through the eyes of someone who is only using it as a vehicle to fulfill their persona…
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Acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki is well known for his fantastical and incredible forays into the mystical worlds he forms in his films, and for good reason. They are chock full of life, detail, and beauty at every turn, truly bringing a whole new kind of land to reality. And, while these are of course wonderful and amazing, Miyazaki set out to prove he could give the same wondrous experience through the lens of reality in his 2013 film The Wind Rises, set to be his final film before retirement.
The Wind Rises tells the life story of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by Japan during World War II. The film is adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name, which was in turn loosely based on the 1937…
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If you're looking for a GHIBILI movie with a strong plot and complex characters, you'll be disappointed if you watch this one. However, if you're a lover of aviation, art and history then this is the movie for you.
It doesn't start off strong nor does it end with a boom. It's like the kind of movie that gives you an impression of "Ah.." but be careful, it comes with emotional baggage.
First, I'd like to point out the negative before we get to the positive.
The negative: It might be a bit slow and there was no impactful conflict that really happened to our hero at the first hour of the movie. There's a lot of plane montage that might be confusing or boring to some because there's like 3-minute animation of just planes flying or exploding. Lastly, there's a lot of scenes that do not have…
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