Known by many of his peers as "The Painter of Clouds," Nishikawa has done background art for several Studio Ghibli movies, including The Wind Rises, Tales from Earthsea, When Marnie Was There ...

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. Jiro dreams of making beautiful ...

the tops of smoky clouds shimmer vibrant peach, coral, and mauve against a blue sky. Inscribed in pain and devastation, there’s a beauty—a hope of redemption. “The Wind Rises” is a movie ...

When the credits roll at the end of The Wind Rises, I always wonder: When Miyazaki looks back on his career, does he feel like he always chose the right path when prioritizing his art above ...

EMI Records began streaming part of the music video for "Hikōki Gumo" (Airplane Cloud), Yumi Matsutoya's theme song for Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu ...

If “The Wind Rises” feels like a particularly personal ... traversing another field — like filmmaking — rooted in a tricky alchemy of art and science. By the start of the 1930s, Jiro ...

Oscar-winning Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki claims that The Wind Rises will be his last film ... His head is always in the clouds and the film is not uncritical of him or his failings.

The legendary Japanese director is nominated again this year, for “The Wind Rises,” which ... films distributed to American art-house theaters. “The Wind Rises” is typically lovely to ...

Miyazaki fans will spot some fresh new touches here, some of them related to the art of the twenties and ... whose novel The Wind Rises (itself inspired by a Paul Valery poem) gives the film ...

Both employ state of the art computer technology ... s troubled past. THE WIND RISES tells the story of aviation designer Jiro Horikoshi. We meet him as a ten year-old with his head (or really his ...