Miyazaki’s Latest Marvel: Review
I’ve seen this director‘s other movies, so I suspect I’ll see this one, too. As Variety puts it: ‘One man’s dream of flight and an entire nation’s dream of technological and military supremacy give rise to “The Wind Rises,†Hayao Miyazaki’s elegiac, hauntingly beautiful historical drama inspired by the life of aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, who designed Japan’s A6M (or “Zeroâ€) fighter plane. As grown-up as 2008’s “Ponyo†was tot-friendly, Miyazaki’s 11th feature draws a sober, socially astute portrait of Japan between the two World Wars.’
