It isn’t out on DVD yet and isn’t voiced in English yet, but apparently it has premiered in Japan.
It’s called “The Wind Rises” and I know very little about it. Any Japanese speaking Dopers(uh, in Japan as well) going to go see it?
It is, at least for now, called The Wind Rises. I’m guessing that is the Japanese title, so it may get changed for Europe, etc.
Anyway, we can discuss it here for those interested. I’m a Miyazaki fan generally and have high hopes.
I’ve been looking forward to when it eventually makes its way here to the US.
One of the more interesting bits of news I read about it is that the actor playing the lead is none other than Hideaki Anno, the director of Evangelion, and this is his first major voice acting role.
Apparently, Miyazaki and Anno are friends, dating back to when Anno was one of the animators working at Studio Ghibli under Miyazaki for Nausicaa. And I heard Studio Ghibli did an introductory short for the third Eva movie released last year.
I don’t know if the title will get changed. It’s apparently a take on line in a French poem by Paul Valery. The line is something like, “Le vent se leve”, which is basically, “the wind rises”. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the title used in France, at least.
Trailer here:
Always looking forward to anything new from Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli. Aircraft and flight have played a big part of many Miyazaki films.
Was that a nuke?
The 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, I’m guessing.
As do women with TB, apparently, unless she was coughing up that much blood for some other reason. They wouldn’t put that in an American trailer, I don’t think. Someone get that gal a totoro.
It’s based on a fictionalized biography of the real life designer of the Zero fighter plane. She could very well have been a real person. At the very least, it’s probable the characters are taken straight from the book.
An interesting bit of trivia is that all the sound effects were created by editing human sounds: voices, hand claps, finger snaps. Look at 1:40 in this video to see one example:
Weird. Why did he do that?
For those Miyazaki fans who hadn’t heard, an enterprising fan has built a working Mehve (the princess’s jet glider from Nausicaa).
Thanks for that. Awesome. I would never have thought those sounds were done that way.
It’s my understanding that he wanted this film to be his testament. It appears that he wanted to use this film to say: this is what animation is. Specifically, he’s making a statement about drawing. Animation starts with a pencil and some paper, it’s something that starts with the artist’s body. He wanted the sounds to be made the same way too, “drawn” so to speak, rather than “photographed”.
Nope, she does have TB and he’s in love with her. This movie is aimed at an adult audience. There are no cute critters for comic relief. It’s a bawl your eyes out drama/tragic romance. Here is a good review that stresses the positives of the film. This one talks about the lack of appeal to children and this one briefly touches on some of its darker aspects.
I agree that would better fit the timeframe we see in that trailer (which seems more like a music video to me)
Who would ever think a movie about a warplane designer who falls in love with a woman with tuberculosis could be dark?!
The way the ground rolled like waves is similar to what a woman I knew told me about the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964, in Alaska. She said the ground moved like water, in ripples.
I am a huge Miyazaki fan but this one had slipped under my radar until I read an article about it in the Economist of all places.
The Wind Rises is based on the life of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the legendary Zero fighter plane. A bit of a departure from his earlier films though of course Miyazaki has always been obsessed with planes and flying.
Early reviews seem to be good and as you would expect it features some wonderful animationset in Japan in the 20’s and 30’s.
I don’t think this will get a wide international theatrical release but hopefully it will be out on some home video format soon enough.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=697354&highlight=Wind+Rises
Mahaloth beat you to it!