The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu): Venice Review. Animation master Hayao Miyazaki delivers a searing vision of Japan between the wars, told through the eyes of a young aviation engineer.

The Wind Rises ends his filmmaking career on a beautiful, meditative note. The Wind Rises is out in the UK on the 9th May 2014. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here .

Please try again. The anime film is a ... The Wind Rises is a poignant example of the sort of wise, quiet sadness that imbues much of the best Japanese art with a "sun-setting" sense of the temporal.

The beauty about The Wind Rises that there is no main storyline.Such words seem clinical and off-colour for a film of such vivid imagery and symbolism. The film is a tapestry of deeply nuanced ...

“The Wind Rises” is a bittersweet but ultimately joyful ride from a true master of his work. Miyazaki had the fortune of having more than “ten years in the sun" and will be sorely missed.

The Wind Rises may be the first movie in which Miyazaki presents the two as being in conflict. Many of the significant passages take place in Horikoshi’s imagination, suggesting that he could ...

The film has been called both unpatriotic and pro-militaristic. Numerous smoking scenes have raised eyebrows among those who assume that an animated feature must be aimed at kids.

In the first of many dream sequences in The Wind Rises, the latest and supposedly final film from beloved Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, a boy scampers across the spine of his home's gabled ...

The Sad Beauty of 'Llewyn Davis' and 'The Wind Rises' Inside Llewyn Davis approaches loss as a personal phenomenon. Llewyn begins the film with very little (both materially and emotionally), and ...