A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 26 wins & 54 nominations total
Hideaki Anno
- Jirô Horikoshi
- (voice)
Hidetoshi Nishijima
- Honjô
- (voice)
Miori Takimoto
- Naoko Satomi
- (voice)
Masahiko Nishimura
- Kurokawa
- (voice)
Stephen Alpert
- Castorp
- (voice)
- (as Steve Alpert)
Jun Kunimura
- Hattori
- (Japanese version)
- (voice)
Mirai Shida
- Kayo Horikoshi
- (voice)
Shinobu Ôtake
- Kurokawa's Wife
- (voice)
Morio Kazama
- Satomi
- (Japanese version)
- (voice)
Keiko Takeshita
- Jirô's Mother
- (voice)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Jirô Horikoshi
- (English version)
- (voice)
John Krasinski
- Honjô
- (English version)
- (voice)
Emily Blunt
- Nahoko Satomi
- (English version)
- (voice)
Martin Short
- Kurokawa
- (English version)
- (voice)
Stanley Tucci
- Caproni
- (English version)
- (voice)
Mandy Patinkin
- Hattori
- (English version)
- (voice)
Mae Whitman
- Kayo Horikoshi
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHuman voices are largely used as sound effects, such as engine roars and earthquake sound.
- GoofsAfter Jiro tells Nahoko that he's finished designing his plane, he falls asleep. Nahoko removes his glasses and places them on the floor behind their heads. In the next shot, from behind their heads, there are no glasses on the floor.
- ConnectionsEdited into Miyazaki Dreams of Flying (2017)
- SoundtracksHikouki-gumo
Written by Yumi Matsutôya (as Arai Yumi)
Performed by Yumi Matsutôya (as Arai Yumi)
Courtesy of Toshiba EMI (Universal Music Japan)
Featured review
Miyazaki's most mature film?
The announcement of this film was a pleasant surprise after Ponyo and From Up on Poppy Hill, which both had simple, childish plots. Few films in Japan have tackled the lives of imperial period heroes; the ghosts of the 1960s urge people to denounce what really happened in that time and memorialize an imaginary anti-war movement, for example in this year's film "Shounen H". For Miyazaki to choose a subject like this showed that he was really going for a huge challenge. Miyazaki is of course anti-war and environmentalist. But Ghibli films are never negative. What sort of positive image of the Zero bomber inventor would Miyazaki produce?
The result is astounding. As everyone has noted, this is not a children's movie. It's complex, so it doesn't have the epic sense of Miyazaki at his best, but history and adulthood are just as complex, and Miyazaki does justice to both. The film indeed stays positive throughout, by showing from start to finish how everyone wishes they themselves would behave, rewarding the viewer with virtue and beauty, but without being condescending about the hardships of real life. In a sense, the film is about the "importance of dreams", but it's also about what it means to be a dreamer in real life, and how our highest fantasies can be turned into beauty if we put our minds to it. The cartoon medium is put to full, extravagant use in dream sequences that merge right into the narrative. Certain elements at the end of the film leave the obvious unsaid in a peculiarly Japanese and fulfilling way. The most classic films of Japan, like the great works of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, say something profound about the meaning of life, and Kaze Tachinu deserves a place among those ranks.
The result is astounding. As everyone has noted, this is not a children's movie. It's complex, so it doesn't have the epic sense of Miyazaki at his best, but history and adulthood are just as complex, and Miyazaki does justice to both. The film indeed stays positive throughout, by showing from start to finish how everyone wishes they themselves would behave, rewarding the viewer with virtue and beauty, but without being condescending about the hardships of real life. In a sense, the film is about the "importance of dreams", but it's also about what it means to be a dreamer in real life, and how our highest fantasies can be turned into beauty if we put our minds to it. The cartoon medium is put to full, extravagant use in dream sequences that merge right into the narrative. Certain elements at the end of the film leave the obvious unsaid in a peculiarly Japanese and fulfilling way. The most classic films of Japan, like the great works of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, say something profound about the meaning of life, and Kaze Tachinu deserves a place among those ranks.
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- Jul 28, 2013
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Se levanta el viento
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,209,580
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $313,751
- Feb 23, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $136,742,301
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
- Color
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