The Wind Rises does not run on big, concussive moments or even tear-jerking melodramatic ones. There’s great humanity and great drama spread throughout, but all of it is given the careful, ...

Listen up: Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki, a world-class master at hand-drawn animation, is hinting that The Wind Rises may be his last full-length feature. The hell, you say. In a Hollywood world of ...

The Wind Rises (2013) also known as Kaze Tachinu, is a compelling Japanese animated historical drama film. The poignant drama film is directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. The plot revolves ...

The Wind Rises may be a challenging end to a major artist’s career. But Miyazaki has retired before, after the 1997 Princess Mononoke, and he returned to make four more wonders, including this ...

‘The Wind Rises, from Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, tells the story of the zero warplane designer.

If ‘The Wind Rises’ really is the swansong of 73-year-old Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (‘Spirited Away’, ‘My Neighbour Totoro’), it’s both a fitting and an uneasy one. On the ...

NB: the screening we attended was of the subtitled, Japanese language version of The Wind Rises rather than the dubbed edition. Based on the life of Japanese engineer Jiro Horikoshi and how he ...

Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises is a lot of things. It’s the final feature-length film from one of the all-time greats of Japanese animation. It’s a gorgeous, Oscar-nominated work that ...

The Wind Rises is just one film, but it echoes an entire country’s obsession with misremembering a deeply painful and extraordinarily violent past.

"The Wind Rises" is a beautifully animated historical biopic of one of Japan's most revered aeronautical engineers. It's also the last film of Hayao Miyazaki, the director of "Spirited Away." ...

The animation in The Wind Rises is meticulous, from scratches in wood boards to Jiro's subtle movement, Miyazaki showing us his character's love through frantic motion.