The Wind Rises

Touchstone Pictures | Release Date: November 8, 2013

8.3	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 307 Ratings

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SperryMOMar 24, 2014

As a big fan of "Spirited Away" and "Howl's Moving Castle", I had high hopes for this movie. While beautiful, the length and minimal story line left me wishing I had waited until it came out for rental.

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lancekozNov 29, 2014

I dunno... this was great to look at.... and since I like engineering and planes and history, it was okay... but after awhile, it just seems to be lacking enough story to justify all the sidetrips and lingering odd scenes. Kind of boring inI dunno... this was great to look at.... and since I like engineering and planes and history, it was okay... but after awhile, it just seems to be lacking enough story to justify all the sidetrips and lingering odd scenes. Kind of boring in the long run.... tho surely masterful in its animation style.… Expand

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frendNov 11, 2013

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was really disappointed with the film not because I expected a more magical Miyazaki but because his storytelling prowess is lost here. Though every single shot is so beautifully designed it's plagued by repetition and overly long sequences. It covers plenty of historical ground in 172 minutes but not much
emotional ground. Besides his narrative being problematic, the whole ideology is immoral. The film explicitly makes a case for beauty and design being more important than preventing war and being with your wife in her dying days. Beauty is in fact, very ugly when it is used for destructive purposes, but the film doesn't do much to make this statement. And the man behind the design isn't very interesting. He lacks personality, and even his imaginative and inspired dreams become repetitive and don't inform much. Miyazaki doesn't make a very good case for the genius of this man. I applaud Miyazaki for not being pigeonholed into making the same movie again and again, and he proves to be adventurous even to the end. But the beauty of the rendered images cannot overshadow very obvious flaws.… Expand

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BroyaxApr 23, 2022

Une idée originale et très intéressante que de raconter la vie de ce concepteur d’avions chez Mitsubishi pendant l’entre-deux guerres, la tête pleine de rêves et d’étoiles, et dont le dernier-né -le superbe Zéro- entrera dans l’Histoire avecUne idée originale et très intéressante que de raconter la vie de ce concepteur d’avions chez Mitsubishi pendant l’entre-deux guerres, la tête pleine de rêves et d’étoiles, et dont le dernier-né -le superbe Zéro- entrera dans l’Histoire avec un grand H…

Le film pose adroitement le paradoxe de l’ingénieur dont les créations sont uilisées à des fins très éloignées de ses propres aspirations mais si ce qu’il aime, c’est concevoir de beaux zingues, alors il n’y a certainement pas de mal à cela… Et s’il permet au Japon de rattraper son retard technologique sur les autres nations les plus avancées au monde, alors il fera la fierté de son pays tout entier…

C’est ici un point de vue sans doute des plus pragmatiques mais le film le défend avec un talent certain. Il nous parle également de la vie personnelle et affective de l’ingénieur avec une guimauve de mauvais aloi tout aussi certaine et d’une façon générale, ‘Le Vent Se Lève’ souffre de graves lenteurs qui font soupirer d’ennui (en effet, l’ennui asphyxie les neurones d’où un besoin accru d’oxygène).

La musique gnangnan n’arrange pas les choses et la fin me semble assez abrupte. Sans parler de l’animation assez… désagréable (à quand l’image de synthèse ? toujours cette vieille 2D en 2014 ?). Nonobstant ces écueils, le film vaut le coup d’oeil pour l’intérêt de son propos et son effort louable de réflexion.… Expand

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