A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
The Wind Rises is an engaging, deeply moving and mature film that exudes intelligence and compassion.
While Miyazaki’s two-hour-long, historical-melodrama swansong is destined to be his most divisive film yet, it is also his most adult and interesting, and never less than visually breathtaking throughout.
Gorgeously evocative visuals, lots about Horikoshi’s devoted wife, but a marked reluctance to engage too deeply with the deadly purpose of his beautiful aircraft.
The desecration of beautiful dreams is a ghost always lurking.
If The Wind Rises is Miyazaki’s final feature, it marks a suitably rich and strange exit for one of the giants of Japanese cinema.
There is a real emotional charge in this life story of a Japanese pioneer. It is not too fanciful to link Miyazaki's own artistry with this young engineer, passionately reaching for the sky.
It isn’t hard to discern a self-portrait in this beautiful, beguiling tale.
Unlike any Studio Ghibli movie. Unlike any animated movie. Strange and heartbreaking. The one that Miyazaki will be remembered for.
Hayao Miyazaki’s 11th and final film sees the Studio Ghibli founder go out with more of a whimper than a bang.
Fans of Miyazaki will see clear autobiographical elements in this depiction of a man devoted to a dream at any cost, an obsession which he himself admits possesses "an element of madness… yearning for something too beautiful can ruin you". On this evidence, it has done quite the opposite.
Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday May 23, 2014, until Thursday June 5, 2014. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday June 6, 2014, until Thursday June 12, 2014. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com