The Wind Rises was nominated for Best Animated Film at this year's Oscars, and was the highest-grossing film in Japan last year. It will, as we mentioned, be out here on May 9, so be sure to check ...

The Wind Rises, which earned $115 million in its home country, ... Joseph Gordon-Levitt provides Jiro’s voice, while Emily Blunt speaks the role of Naoko.) (SEE: A trailer for The Wind Rises) ...

From Studio Ghibli, THE WIND RISES is slated for limited release in North American theaters on Feb. 21, 2014, and expanded release on Feb. 28, 2014, under the Touchstone Pictures banner. The film will ...

The wind is rising. We must try to live. And so they must. These words by Paul Valéry, quoted during the first conversation between soon-to-be lovers, echo throughout Hayao Miyazaki'sThe Wind ...

As we learned earlier this year, The Wind Rises will be the final film from legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.The Studio Ghibli production was picked up by Disney who will release the film in ...

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 ...

Naoko is one of several carefully-wrought characters surrounding Jiro – others include his abrupt yet ultimately kind-hearted boss, ... The Wind Rises is out in the UK on the 9th May 2014.

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 ...

(3 1/2 stars) “All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.” So said aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose Mitsubishi A5M and A6M Zero served the Empire of Japan during WWII. Amid ...