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A Journey
The story of Jirō Horikoshi unfolds as a captivating tale of a young boy living in a quaint provincial town in Japan. He dreams of a day when he could design and possibly fly airplanes, as aviation becomes the passion that drives him. However, his dreams are dealt a devastating blow as his eyesight begins to rapidly deteriorate, preventing him from ever piloting an aircraft. Jirō's heart is filled with hopeless longing, and even in his dreams, he faces the haunting vision of falling from the...
A Heart Aflutter
Determined to become an aeronautical engineer one day, Jirô studies the principles of aviation throughout his academic years, continuously seeking guidance and encouragement from Caproni along the way. By the time he is an adult, he is able to enter the University of Tokyo to study aeronautics. Boarding a train, he makes his way to the Kanto region of Japan. During the journey, he meets Naoko, a young girl traveling with her maid, for the first time. An unprecedented, deadly earthquake sudden...
The Falcon Project
Years later, Jirô works as an aircraft manufacturer and designer for a company in Nagoya, Japan. His first assignment to build a fighter with a design team ends in failure, and the company is forced to give up its contract to a rival company. Redirecting its attention to the designing of a heavy bomber, the company sends Jirô to Germany to study the technical advances of the German Junker aircraft designs. Jirô, with difficulty, succeeds in procuring the necessary designs from the grudging Ge...
1. Hideaki Anno (Japanese), Joseph Gordon-Levitt(Disney) 2. The main protagonist of the film. Born to a wealthy family, he has an enigmatic personality and has a loose concept of being on time. Jiro is a dreamer, and his mind is constantly filled with airplanes and their designs. He has a serious demeanor, and can be sincere to a fault. He has unique sense of humor. His favorite food is mackerel, and his cigarette is "cherry-flavored".
Inspiration and Setting
The film is set in Tokyo before and after the Great Kantō Earthquake in 1923, and several locations in Nagano Prefecture, namely in Karuizawa and the Fujimi Kogen Sanatorium. Unlike previous Ghibli works, The Wind Rises is based on the real-life experiences of author Tatsuo Hori and aviation engineer Jirô Horikoshi. Regaring Hori's work and its impact: Additionally in the film, Jirô speaks with Giovanni Gianni Caproni in his dreams. Caproni founded an aircraft manufacturing company called "Ca...
Issues with Adaptation
According to French Ghibli fansite Buta Connection, the NHK documentary 1,000 Days Record / Declaration of Retirementhighlighted one fact: Never has Hayao Miyazaki been so unsure of himself in choosing to adapt this story. Initially based on a forty-page manga about Jirô Horikoshi's aeronautical engineering feats, the story seemed so interesting and so innovative to producer Toshio Suzuki that the latter kept pushing Hayao Miyazaki to develop it further into animation. When the decision was m...
Naoko's Disease
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. When tuberculosis develops, it causes fever and bloody sputum, gradually destroying the lungs and reducing the ability to breathe. During the period The Wind Rises was set, the disease was considered incurable and had a high mortality rate. At the time, patients were sent to a sanatorium in the highlands such as Karuizawa, where they were given Open-Air Therapy(大気（安静）療法). This involved patients resting on a clear plat...
Development
The Wind Rises was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and his first film since Ponyo in 2008. Prior to the film's production, the tireless director managed to produce two animated short films, Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (2010) and Treasure Hunting (2011) and wrote the screenplay for a third short, A Sumo Wrestler's Tail (2010) for the Ghibli Museum. He also supervised and co-wrote the screenplay for The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) and From Up on Poppy Hill(2011). Miyazaki began to...
Production
Production began in July 2011, a few months after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Two hundred staff were assigned to work on the two-hour animated film, which required 160,000 drawings, each checked and finalized by Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki was determined in depicting Japan during the Taishô era and the beginning of the Shôwa era as accurately as possible. The biggest challenge Miyazaki presented himself was the depiction of large crowd scenes, “The characters who make up the...
According to Buta Connection, at this stage of production, however, there is still one unanswered question: who will dub Jirô? For Hayao Miyazaki, Jirô is an intellectual. “At that time, intelligent people spoke clearly and with a confident voice,” he explains. “Jiro doesn't speak much because he's brilliant. When you're like him, you don't talk un...
According to Buta Connection, on December 12, 2012, Studio Ghibli formalized the two new feature films in production, The Wind Rises for Hayao Miyazaki and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya for Isao Takahata, scheduled for a double release for summer 2013. This would have been the first time that the works of the two directors were released together ...
The film's score was composed and conducted by Joe Hisaishi, and performed by the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.
Additional Voices
1. Original: Fumihiro Awano, Akane Fujisaki, Tetsuro Ishibashi, Kaichi Kaburagi, Kensuke Komai, Yasumasa Ohba, Yasuhiro Oohara, Bernd Otto, Kazumasa Sagawa, Yuuichi Saitou, Akiyoshi Sakurai, Sascha, Teruo Seki, Kanako Takagi, Kentaro Takagi, Katsuhiko Tamura, Ayako Umemura, Taichi Umezawa, Tomonori Yanagibashi, Masahiro Yoshino 2. English: Matt Adler, Holly Dorff Long, Moosie Drier, Jackie Gonneau, Nicholas Guest, Richard Horvitz, Rif Hutton, Matthew Labyorteaux, Michelle Ruff, Byron Thames,...
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The Wind Rises (Japanese: 風立ちぬ, Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu, lit. ' The Wind Has Risen ') is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI.
Jiro Horikoshi (堀越 次郎 Horikoshi Jirō) is the protagonist in Hayao Miyazaki's film The Wind Rises. He is voiced by Hideaki Anno in the Japanese version and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the English version. Jiro has dark brown hair, brown eyes and black glasses. He wears a suit comprised of a white...
Feb 21, 2014 · The Wind Rises is a 2013 animated biography drama film by Hayao Miyazaki, based on the life of Jiro Horikoshi, a Japanese aeronautical engineer. The film features the voices of Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto and others, and explores the themes of dreams, love, war and history.
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- 2014-02-21
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