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Japanese | 風立ちぬ |
Hepburn | Kaze Tachinu |
Directed by | Hayao Miyazaki |
Produced by | Toshio Suzuki |
Screenplay by | Hayao Miyazaki |
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Kaze Tachinu by Hayao Miyazaki |
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Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
Cinematography | Atsushi Okui |
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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126 minutes |
Country | Japan |
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Budget | US$30 million |
Box office | US$136.5 million |
The Wind Rises (Japanese: 風立ちぬ Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu?) is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli. It was released by Toho on July 20, 2013, in Japan, and by Touchstone Pictures in North America on February 21, 2014.
The Wind Rises is a fictionalized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The film is adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name, which was in turn loosely based on the 1937 short story The Wind Has Risen by Tatsuo Hori. It was the final film directed by Miyazaki before his retirement in September 2013.
The Wind Rises was the highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan in 2013 and received widespread critical acclaim. It won and was nominated for several awards, including nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.