The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) (2013)

A beautiful "swan song" from Hayao Miyazaki

“As a fan of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, The Wind Rises is not one of their best(Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Whisper of the Heart), let down by some overly-languid pacing and some wooden voice-work from Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It is however a great and beautiful film and quite easily along with Disney's Frozen one of the best animated films of 2013.

The best thing about The Wind Rises is the animation, if there was one word to sum it up it would be exquisite. It is filled with Ghibli's characteristic meticulous and loving attention to detail, and it's not just luscious in colour and elegantly smooth in background art but it is also incredibly expressive. Joe Hisaishi's music score is also stunning, ethereally orchestrated and nimble in m” read more

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (7 movies items)

" "Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through." Written by Hayao Miyazaki Music by Joe Hisaishi Cinematography by Atsushi Okui Editing by Takeshi Seyama "

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My Favorite Films of 2013 (25 movies items)

" "Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through." Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Written by Hayao Miyazaki Music by Joe Hisaishi Cinematography by Atsushi Okui Editing by Takeshi Seyama "

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"The story of this ghibli movie is based on a man who build´s a special airplane in the 2. world war. Sometimes there are big time jumps but you´ll never lose the focus and how all of this culiminates is stunning. "

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"First viewing - January 10th/31st The kiddo and I were super excited to find some Anime on HBO Max, especially all of the Ghibli films. On this afternoon we initially were going to watch Weathering With You, but it's only available in English or Spanish (why???) dub and neither of us was OK with that. So she looked at all of the Ghibli films and somehow landed on this one. We made it a little over an hour into it and she was bored out of her mind and asked if we could watch something else. So r"

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"15.5 Netflix rewatched"