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Best movies 2017 animated4/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I will never forget watching it in a packed house at the now-defunct Sunshine Cinema in Manhattan. ![]() ![]() Or, to put it another way, The Wind Rises has one of the greatest filmmakers of all time asking, “Should I have created?” You might assume the answer is an empowering “yes!” But with Miyazaki, nothing is ever so simple or so emotionally concrete.Īt the time of its release, Miyazaki had claimed The Wind Rises would be his last film, giving each screening a sense of finality. The result is entirely unique: part early Hollywood historical epic, part biopic, part humble autobiography. The film goes even further, adding another layer atop the manga, using both the life of this historical figure and this beloved novel to interrogate Miyazaki’s own long and storied career. How grand and sweeping? The animator fuses the biography with an adaptation of a famous work of fiction: The Wind Has Risen, an 80-year-old novel that chronicles a couple’s tragic time at a tuberculosis sanitarium in 1930s Nagano. Though both the manga and film present themselves as biographies of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the notorious Mitsubishi A6M Zero plane, which Japan used during the attack on Pearl Harbor in the Second World War, Miyazaki takes grand and sweeping liberties with Horikoshi’s backstory. Hayao Miyazaki initially produced The Wind Rises as a manga - a more experimental, less financially risky medium for him to fine-tune the most ambitious project of his career. ![]()
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