The Wind Rises

The Wind Rises
An image of Nahoko Satomi working on a painting on a hill with clouds in a blue sky. The film's titles and credits appears in the bottom in Japanese text.
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Japanese風立ちぬ
Literal meaningThe Wind Has Risen
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKaze Tachinu
Directed byHayao Miyazaki
Screenplay byHayao Miyazaki
Based on風立ちぬ
by Hayao Miyazaki
Produced byToshio Suzuki
Starring
CinematographyAtsushi Okui
Edited byTakeshi Seyama
Music byJoe Hisaishi
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 20 July 2013 (2013-07-20) (Japan)
Running time
126 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
BudgetUS$30 million[2]
Box officeUS$136.5 million[3][4]

The Wind Rises (Japanese: 風立ちぬ, Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu, lit. 'The Wind Has Risen') is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI. It was released in Japan on 20 July 2013 by Toho, and in North America by Touchstone Pictures on 21 February 2014.

Based on Miyazaki's manga of the same name, The Wind Rises portrays a fictionalised account of the life of Japanese aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, in particular his engineering career from his time at the University of Tokyo in 1923 to the first test flight of the Mitsubishi Ka-14 on 4 February 1935.[5] Juxtaposed with the historical events is a fictional romance of Horikoshi's, inspired by the similarly-named semi-autobiographical novel The Wind Has Risen by Tatsuo Hori. The film was originally intended to be Miyazaki's final feature film,[6][7] before Miyazaki reversed his decision and eventually directed The Boy and the Heron.[8][9]

The Wind Rises was the highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan in 2013. Though it caused some political controversy and criticism in Asia, it was met with critical acclaim. The film was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, winning the latter.

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  8. ^ "宮崎駿監督、新作タイトルは「君たちはどう生きるか」：朝日新聞デジタル". Asahi Shimbun. 14 November 2021. Archived from the original on 14 November 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
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