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IMDb rating 7.8
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Critic Mike D'Angelo
rated 6

...features more than enough gorgeous imagery to make his loss feel acute.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Sheila O'Malley
rated 8

Jiro is treated with nostalgia and respect, and is a character you come to love, with his pink suit and unruly hair. His love story is touching and terrible, sweet and funny...

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Dan Jolin
rated 8

...remains a welcome and stunningly wrought farewell from a truly imaginative master.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Tom Shone
rated 8

...probably the sweetest animated feature about an armaments designer you'll ever see.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 8

Aeroplanes are a metaphor for seizing life's opportunities; flight is the ultimate glory.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Frederik Asschenfeldt Vandrup
rated 8

...formår med mesterlig præcision at få os med på den drøm om noget større som ingen har forestillet sig før, som er hele drivkraften for Horikoshis liv.

Read full review at Cinemazone
Critic Kasper Würtz
rated 8

’Når vinden rejser sig’ er en fascinerende og tragisk fortælling om de ofre, man må acceptere for at nå sin drøm i løbet af de ti kreative år, kunstneren har til rådighed.

Read full review at Soundvenue
Critic Jens Peterson
rated 6

Japanske mästaren Hayao Miyazaki tar farväl med en suverän animering som berättar mer konventionellt än hans fantasier.

Read full review at Aftonbladet

Cast & Crew

Hayao Miyazaki
Director
Hideaki Anno
As Jiro Horikoshi (voice)
Hideaki Anno
Director
Werner Herzog
As Castorp (English Voice)
Jun Kunimura
As Hattori (voice)
Stanley Tucci
As Giovanni Caproni

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The Wind Rises tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi, a young man who dreams of building planes despite his nearsightedness, He meets a girl named Nahoko and falls in love with her but she has tuberculosis. While working on a fighter plane project for the Imperial Navy during World War II., Jiro is inspired by his hero, the Italian aircraft designer Giovanni Battista Caproni, Another character, Hans Castorp criticizes the Nazi regime and helps Jiro and Nahoko's romance before fleeing arrest by the Japanese secret police. In the end, Jiro becomes one of Japan's most prestigious aeronautical engineers while witnessing significant historical events that mark his life.

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