But in “The Wind Rises,” which is said to be the 73-year-old director’s final film, the tone shifts to a much more mature, realistic story. Essentially, the movie is about Japanese ...

The animated movie, dubbed into English for release in the United States ... not war and industry - that drive the characters to their greatest heights. "The Wind Rises" also boasts an evocative ...

That 1997 movie was the first time many American filmgoers ... White," "101 Dalmatians" and "The Aristocats." With "The Wind Rises," which has earned an Academy Award nomination for best animated ...

If The Wind Rises is indeed the final film from Hayao Miyazaki—the animation master has both announced and rescinded his retirement—he leaves us with a moving, meaningful farewell. Based on ...

Once they arrive, their sisterhood is rekindled, the past rises up again in all its glory, and there’s enough sparks, drinks and roman... Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Lead SUPER PUMPED on Showtime by ...

When Hayao Miyazaki’s last feature film, The Wind Rises, was released 10 years ago, that movie, the fictionalized story of a real-life aviation pioneer whose designs were used by the Japanese ...

As compelling as it is, Oppenheimer isn’t the first film to explore such issues. The Wind Rises begins fittingly in a dream. In it, a young Jiro Horikoshi flies in a plane through the Japanese ...

Among his 11 features (2001’s Spirited Away earned him an Oscar), The Wind Rises may come as a shock for fans of the kid-friendly, pro-feminist, deeply pacifist Miyazaki. The story is inspired ...