The wind rises / Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DYMP, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI present ; a Studio Ghibli production ; produced by Toshio Suzuki ; original story, screenplay and directed by Hayao Miyazaki ; English adaptation screenplay by Mike Jones ; producer Geoffrey Wexler ; director, Gary Rydstrom.
Special features: The Wind Rises: behind the microphone. John Krasinski, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci, William H. Macy, Werner Herzog, Mandy Patinkin, Elijah Wood, Darren Criss, Jennifer Grey, Mae Whitman.
Summary:
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events. "It is vigorous, subtle, thematically daring, visually gorgeous."--Time Magazine. "The movie's a gorgeous, problematic anomaly in an illustrious career-a case of rapturous artistic blindness."--Boston Globe. "Visually, The Wind Rises is a thing of sensual, contemplative poetry,"--Washington Post.
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