The Wind Rises

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風立ちぬ

Kaze Tachinu

Showing: Friday 9th January 2015 at 7:30 pm

Released: 9th May 2014

 

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Sponsored by:  Paul Hancocks

 

Certificate PGFlag of JapanJapan – 127 mins – Animation/Drama

 

 

Audience Reaction 83%

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Stars: ENGLISH DUB VOICES:-  Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, Mae Whitman, Werner Herzog, Jennifer Grey, William H. Macy, Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Stephen Alpert, Morio Kazama, Keiko Takeshita, Mirai Shida, Jun Kunimura, Shinobu Otake

 

Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and thus unable to become a pilot, he joins the aircraft division of a major Japanese engineering company in 1927. His genius is soon recognized, and he grows to become one of the world’s most accomplished airplane designers. THE WIND RISES chronicles much of Jiro’s life, and depicts key historical events that affected deeply the course of his life, including The Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, The Great depression, the tuberculosis epidemic, and Japan’s plunge into war. He meets and falls in love with Nahoko, grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo, and innovates tremendously, leading the world of aviation into the future. Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori, who lived during the time of the story of THE WIND RISES to create Jiro, a fictional character at the center of an epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.

 

FILM FESTIVALS

Academy Award (Nominated – Best Animated Feature Film of the Year 2014), Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Won – EDA Award for Best Animated Feature Film 2013), Annie Awards (Won – Outstanding Achievement in Writing in an Animated Feature Production 2014)(2 nominations – Best Animated Feature, Outstanding Achievement in Character Animation in a Feature Production 2014), Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Nominated – Best Animated Feature Film 2013), Awards of the Japanese Academy (2 wins – Best Music Score, Best Animation Film 2014), Blue Ribbon Awards (2 nominations – Best Director, Best Film 2013), Boston Online Film Critics Association (Won – Best Animated Film 2013), Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (Won – Best Animated Film 2013), Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (Critics Choice Award nomination – Best Animated Feature 2014), Central Ohio Film Critics Association (2 wins – Best Animated Film, Best Foreign Language Film 2014), Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (Won – Best Animated Feature 2013)(Nominated – Best Foreign Language Film 2013), Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association (Nominated – Best Foreign Language Film 2013), Denver Film Critics Society (Nominated – Best Animated Feature Film 2013), Florida Film Critics Circle Awards (2nd place – Best Animated Film 2013), Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) (Nominated – Best Animated Film 2014), Golden Globe Awards, USA (Nominated – Best Foreign Language Film 2014), Golden Trailer Awards (Won – Best Foreign TV Spot 2014)(2 Nominations – Best Foreign TV Spot, Best Foreign Animation/Family Trailer 2014), IGN Summer Movie Awards (Nominated – Best Animated Movie 2013), Indiana Film Journalists Association, US (2nd place – Best Animated Feature 2013), International Cinephile Society Awards (2nd place – Best Animated Film 2014), International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA) (Won – Best Original Score for an Animated Feature Film 2013), Iowa Film Critics Awards (Nominated – Best Animated Feature 2014), Kinema Junpo Awards (Nominated – Best Film 2014), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (2nd place – Best Animation 2013), Mill Valley Film Festival (Won – Audience Award 2013), National Board of Review, USA (Won – Best Animated Feature 2013), New York Film Critics Circle Awards (Won – Best Animated Film 2013), New York Film Critics, Online (Won – Best Animated Feature 2013), New York Film Festival (Nominated – Grand Marnier Fellowship Award for Best Film 2013), Online Film & Television Association (2 nominations – Best animated Picture, Best Foreign Language Film 2014), Online Film Critics Society Awards (Won – Best Animated Feature 2014)(4 nominations – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Not in the English Language 2014), Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (Nominated – Best Animated Film 2013), San Diego Film Critics Society Awards (Won – Best Animated Film 2013), San Francisco Film Critics Circle (Nominated – Best Animated Feature 2013), Satellite Award (Won – Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media 2013), Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards (2nd place – Best Animated Film 2013), St. Louis Film Critics Association, US (2nd place – Best Animated Feature Film 2013), Tokyo Anime Award (2 wins – Best Voice Actor, Animation of the Year in Film Category 2014), Toronto Film Critics Association Awards (Won – Best Animated Feature 2014), Utah Film Critics Association Awards (2nd place – Best Animated Feature Film 2013), Venice Film Festival (Nominated – Golden Lion 2013), Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards (Nominated – Best Animated Feature 2013)

 

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