There are lots of subtleties and hidden messages in this movie about politics, innovation, morality and human ingenuity. Scientists and Innovators can really relate on to this animation. Wubba Lubba Dub Dub
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Wind Rises. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of aircraft engineering, most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Jiro Horikoshi's personal outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Giovanni Battista Caproni, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Wind Rises truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, Caproni's dream-dialogues with Jiro, which itself is a cryptic reference to Jack Northop's classic YB-49. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Miyazaki's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂 (Thx @Foxtrot Sierra)
@@castronimussi6050 its probably because oscar is based on popularity not the quality of the music or movie Besides its an american award, have you ever seen any other movies winning an oscar other than spirited away and parasites?
This is because this was not shown to most people or kids. Ghibli fans would've seen it. Non ghibli fans were unlikely to see it. If disneys frozen and Ghiblis The Wind Rises was in theaters for the first time more people would've gone to the showing of Frozen just because of the disney animator. If the animators were reverse(disney made this movie and ghibli made frozen) This would've won oscars hands down.
And the word Ghibli itself comes from Arabic "in front of me" ; it's the name of a strong southwesterly wind that blows over the Medditeranean Sea, after which the aircraft was named after.
Thank you guys for these facts. Great to know. I know that Ghibli studio has a thing for wind. Knowing that it all began with the name of the studio makes more sense to me now.
Hold on...this is based on a true story?! Oh, come on! Discovering that Grave of the Fireflies was a true story was already heartbreaking enough, but this too?!
Noctis Lucis Caelum Jiro Horikoshi was really a Japanese WWII aircraft engineer that designed the most successful aircraft at the time, which was the Zero fighter as depicted in the movie. His wife didn't die of tuberculosis though. Just look up Jiro Horikoshi, he even has the cute glasses.
The main character had an amazing journey of a life, as an artist and an engineer, and I think Miyazaki could identify with him as an artist. This music perfectly represents that 10 years, the pain of failure, and the welling, unstoppable push of innovation and technology racing forward with time. In the middle of that, one man floats along, and finds simple love and happiness. And it's beautiful. It's more beautiful because he experienced it all, bittersweet, don't you think?
Hayao Miyazaki loves planes, that's why most of his films have planes in them. 😁💗❤💗😁 Jiro leaves for work and Naoko returns to the sanatorium and passes away. 💔 It crushes me everytime
Long live studio Ghibli ❤️! Thank you for being in my life for the last 20 years! Miadzaki San and Hisashi SAN thank you for coming to this world and making it better
Am I the only one who really liked this movie because it tells the tale of Japanese war time engineering pretty well... always being a bit to behind, but when ever they do something truly spectacular it just doesn’t do enough to have a serious impact on the war, take the Yamato for example praised as so it was a religion fantastic design and just truly spectacular. But just not enough to effect the outcome of the war. Or the I 400 truly ahead of its time design again not enough to win the war. Note that I’m not saying the movie itself tells that but in a way it lets you in on that. Also it is truly poetic in the way that flight is a cursed but beautiful dream. That it tells that really well when they are in Germany and have a look of that ginormous passengers plane, sadly only left to become a part in the war.
When cows and bulls are pulling a high tech air fighter gives a contrast of how much governments have payed on wars in such a post-ironic way also each and every character symbolizes Miyazaki in one way or another capironi is Miyazaki in his retire days trying to keep his art alive jiro is Miyazaki trying to produce his art in a world saturated with the thought of the priority of money ego war and politics jiro also symbolizes the next generation of artists that end exactly the way their priors did, they stop making art and hand it to the next generation he also shows a pessimistic view that's really hard to catch but it discusses the uselessness of war and the death of million for nothing and also that people had lost faith in themselves and each other but also gives us a leap of faith with jiro's relationship and its semi happy ending
@@Tensho_C no, he was the perfect man. He came up with so many technological innovations, and for even years after the Zero was the most capable aircraft in the world. The man was a genius and an artist. He didn't use pure numbers like the yanks, brits and Germans he used heart and imagination. He was the greatest aircraft designer in history, but he never saw himself like that. He just did what he loved, but his love was turned into a weapon and was wasted
Sadly he never designed his own plane after WWII again, he worked on the YS-11 turboprop project but he spent the rest of his years in a lecture hall. Kinda sad
Coming from a family deeply rooted in aviation and engineering since its earliest stages (of aviation), and being an aspiring engineer in mechatronics myself, this film resonated very deeply with me. I see my dad, who is in his late 60s now, sitting, bored at his desk, mulling over endless safety procedures and regulations he needs to conform designs to, and I know that more than anything else in that moment he wishes for a drafting desk and stand, pen and paper and a vision to create something beautiful. When this film came out, I took my dad to go see it. Needless to say he grumbled about it being 'for children' and that he hadn't watched cartoons in years. By the end of it he came out saying it was one of the best films he'd seen, with a tear in his eye. I believe it resonated so deeply in him, and to an extent myself because he can appreciate and understand everything Jirou goes through in the film, and he understands the wish to make a beautiful plane, all to his own design so that he might see it fly someday. I honestly think sometimes he longs for the days when such things were possible, and it doesn't take teams of hundreds of engineers just to create a single part of a new design. This movie transported him, for an all to short two hours, to that time and that place. Thanks for reading to the end anyway :)
This movie is my favourite Hayao Miyazaki movie. I think it´s so unique and even personal for Miyazaki. Since this movie didn´t receive as much recognition as the others movies it made me kinda sad. But this comment section for sure warms my heart :)
Miyazaki really meet Caproni descendants who offered all these original plans from their engineer ancestors, like a blessing during Porco Rosso making. He never forget it to salute them in this movie!
Herpidus Derpicus They say that this is going to be his FINAL film, because he wants to make his grandson a movie before he finally passes away. (That's what I read on Wikipedia I think)
"Listen to me, Japanese boy. Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality". I love this quote. I think it fits well with any profession connected with art. Artists do their business not for money, but for creating something that never existed. I want to become a music composer. I want to compose music for something as great as Studio Ghibli movies. For me music is "beautiful dreams", and I want to turn these dreams into reality.
The ending is quite ironic. Jiro was just a little kid who dreamed to make beautiful planes then many years later he created the Mitsubishi A6M "Zero". This fighter participated to the Attack of Pearl Harbor and was the icon of the Pacific War. In the beginning of the conflict, the Zero was the pride of Japan and was considered as the best fighter of the world in 1942 with its manoeuvrabilty and long range. The allies pilots nicknamed it "Terror of the Pacific". However after 1943, the Zero became obsolete when F6F, P51, P38 and F4U were introduced during the war. At the end of war the mighty Zero ended as symbol of despair and tragedy. Thousands were used for kamikazes attacks. Thousands of young pilots lost their lives in those Zeroes. How do you feel when your creation was used to start a war, killing thousands of pilots and condemned Japan to its destruction with firebombing of cites ?
Seems like most people enjoyed the surface sadness of the film which Jiro's lost love. However, I hope they do pay attention to Japan's history at the time and Jiro's cursed dream. I believe that's what Miyazaki wished for when he created this deep movie.
Linh Nguyen no all I cared about was the last 50 minuets with the love stuff the rest I couldn't care about this movie was more then 2 hours it was hard for me to get sucked in alot
Maybe Jiro's doomed love was represented on the surface by his wife, and deeper down by his aeroplanes. I guess they're linked by this common theme. Both send the same message; love is fleeting, but beautiful - and ultimately doomed? (Can love by definition be 'doomed' if it exists?) I think Miyazaki was trying to send the same message home through these two plot lines.
I feel like im walking down an endless hallway of emptiness, this feeling of melancholy is hard to understand but pleasing in a way , a movie that leaves you with such feeling of hollowness is indeed a masterpiece
namjoon deborah Indeed. I couldn't sleep for 3 nights it felt like a punishment for living the worthless, joyless life of mine. It gave me desire to live, but not the way I was already living. I was being punished because of it
Ali Medadi "Hotaru no Haka" punishes more than this movie. I watched it first time in April and still feeling sad and empty. Life is beautiful and cruel at the same time, but dreaming is what keep people feel life is worth living. Keep dreaming.
@@retroand hotaru no haka is indeed a very sad movie. But that movie gave me a feeling that i can comprehend. I am sad and mad for everything that they need to went through at that age. However this movie left me with a feeling of emptiness. It feels so sad but i still need to walk away. Omg sorry for the long essay. I'm that emotional
There was a war in Japan. From the Taisho Era to the Showa Era, In 1920s Japan, People sufferd life with The Great Depression, poverty, disease and The Great Kanto earthquake. Then, Japan plunged into war. How did Japan's youth survive such a time? Friendship and respect, across time and space, for the Italian aircraft designer Caproni. The birth of the later-mythicized Zero fighter. The meeting and parting with the beautiful, ill-fated girl Nahoko. This film tell the story of Jiro Horikoshi, who lived during those turblent times. We must live. A tribute to Jiro Horikoshi and Tatsuo Hori
I didn't cried while watching the movie, but I cried over to hear this music. We always get older, and the dream and present is sometimes violent or cruel and totally different from what we imagined. But we must live and go forward because life is not worthless. I'm a hopeless geek of Studio Ghibli and movies always give me a positive view and courage of my life.
"Who has seen the wind Neither I, nor you But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing through Let the wind carry these wings, Carry these wings to you"
As a translator, you often will find the true beauty of a piece of art simply by taking a closer look at its name or title. The original title "風立ちぬ" contains a very old fashioned perfective form that had been used up until WWII. Now, the quote at the beginning of the movie "風立ちぬ、いざ生きめやも" is actually a mistranslation based on some French poem. In the French poem, you could translate it as "[When/Now as] The wind is picking up, we must try to live.)) The Japanese 風立ちぬ、いざ生きめやも however means something completely different. In the context of the quote shown at the beginning of the movie, you can translate it as "[Now, as] the wind has risen, it's time, whether we are going to live or die. This might not just be a hint towards Japanese war propaganda and the attitude of the "winds of the gods" (kamikaze - Japanese air force) but it also points towards that girl with tuberculosis who knew that she is gonna die eventually. Especially, as there is also a novel named 風立ちぬ (The Wind Has Risen) written in 1937 by Hori Tatsuo featuring a man who cares for his wife as she contracted tuberculosis. (And Miyazaki said he took inspiration from that book. And Hori Tatsuo was inspired by the French poem () and he was the one who translated it) Following that logic of the Japanese original quote, you will come to the same conlusion that "you should live every day as if it would be your last, no matter what is going to happen" which is almost identical in meaning to the French poem and the English translation (The wind is rising, we must live). However, the title only features "風立ちぬ" which, if it stands on its own, can also mean "風立った" (The wind rose). This suits the ending of the movie quite well as the girl said to be like the wind has died and from the kamikaze air planes who rose up into the sky, not one single plane came back, the war is over and most importantly: Miyazaki wanted to end his career with that final film, maybe because his train/wind of creativity had faded after almost twenty years of creating beautiful animations. Maybe, that's also one of the film's messages: If you are blessed by the wind of creativity and you feel the urge to create something beautiful, as an artist or engineer - go for it, no matter what.
I cried after the first time watching this film. And never ever watched the second time cause I can't hold that emptiness. It's sad. But it more just" nothing" after u watched it. Feeling so hollow
I had to rewatch this twice within the same day of the week to reset my melancholy type like feeling on this masterpiece but after all the movie was great and emotional for viewers like you and i.
I always want to watch this film when I feel burnt out and a bit exhausted, but still capable of doing something. This movie comes in then :) I cry every single time.
Muhammad Rheno Bhaskoro Nahoko (?) goes back to the sanatorium without saying anything to anyone and sadly,she dies there:( Jiro never got to see her again
I get emotional while listening to this track and relive the whole film. What a film and ost. Hayao Mayazaki and Joe Hisaishi(composer) are really legends
I'm glad Ghibli at least acknowledged the horror of war, not just as a victim, but also as an invader. Jiro is a calm man, who seems always disconnected from the world, and had the talent to make beautiful aircrafts that are made for war. The engineers knew that their products are being used for mass destruction, but did not question the morality of it. They lived a comfortable elite life style while the nation rewarded their talents. They know it but were always a little bit disconnected with the poverty in their nation and death toll of other nations. In the end Jiro is left with nothing, his planes are gone, no pilots returned, his wife is gone, and is left alone in the world but "must try to live". The war left a scar even on people who have made a living off of it. His wife might have lived if the war was not going on, if she could have received antibiotics earlier on, but the import was severely disrupted due to the war. And Jiro's career is something that definitely made international trades harder by fueling the war with weapons. Miyazaki and Suzuki Toshio made this film because they wanted to show the audience that airplanes and cars were inventions of war and that they acknowledge the pain that came with those inventions. It is thought that Miyazaki made Jiro left with nothing because he wanted to remind the world that no one can be free from their doings after participating in war. Such a beautiful masterpiece with lots of meaning in disguise.
@@rhenoskoro1671 She was died in this movie, due to tuberculosis which at the time is considered as a irrecoverable disease. In fact, Jiro's wife in real life didn't die like in this movie. She died decades after WW2 of old age
I got inspired by this film. i used to dream about being a pilot but that seem to be impossible because of my bad eyesight so i decided to abandoned that dream but after a while i was introduced to this beautiful movie which make my dream come true... well not really. Im planning to become an aircraft engineer. Its beautiful and weird to be inspired by a film but still after i watched this film i got the motive to be an aircraft engineer. Well the lesson is to never give up. Goodbye. -A person
As an aspiring Aerospace engineer, this film not only spoke to me on an incredibly personal level, but inspired me to keep striving to do what I love. The beauty and wonder that airplanes excite in me was a feeling that I never thought I'd see expressed on screen, but this film perfectly encapsulates those emotions, and its only made me even more in love with aviation. Thanks for the incredible film, Miyazaki.
The movie was rather not of a innovation or some sort of love content but rather its about a tragedy that each and every one of us would come within our life to face it, struggle is the key for a better success.
The real poem in french is super long, like le vent se lève il faut tenter de vivre is just 2 vers from like 5, in there valery denounces the war and brings up the fact that even after all the madness of war we should still continue living ;)
2:23 is probably the most saddest and the most beautiful scene in the movie at least for me. How Nahoko encourages Jiro to live and seeing how she flies up into the sky and never returns is just so sad but beautiful at the same time 😭❤️
For along time i strayed away from this movie as the trailers never showed me anything that I thought would be interesting. However, today I said screw it and probably just watched one of my new favorite movies of all time. Everything about reeks of pure artistic beauty and as an Italian it was nice too see my people's similar aspirations along with the Japanese aspirations for flight. Si alza il vento.
I feel that it gets a summer vibe, feel like I am standing in a huge valley with wind, flower bloom everywhere, I mean I cant describe how happy I feel
@@kawai-uwu3520 I think that really depends on how you interpret the movie, I don't think Jiro's dreams are cursed, even though the cost was high, if you have someone who is there to support your dreams and you are willing to do the same is all that matters.
@@lenny7877 No I don't mean that the dream was hard to accomplish (though it was as well). I meant that because many people died with Jiro's plane, his innocent dream of building planes was cursed. His dreams of living with his wife ended up being cursed as well (though she ended up dying though she might have died during treatment as well).
@@kawai-uwu3520 I see what you mean. I think it's very important to consider the consequences of one's actions, especially with technology. We have obligatory ethics lessons because of this. I think almost anything can be used as a weapon, that doesn't mean we have to stagnate progress because of it. Same goes for IT, medical and other fields too. It's not a cursed dream, it's just a bunch of evil people. As Einstein (?correct me if I'm wrong) said, "I don't know what WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will surely be fought with sticks and stones"
The greatest and most saddest movie of Hiyao miazaki. This should have won the Oscar but no, they have to give it to the stupid frozen. This is a masterpiece. Frozen can't come even close to this. What a sad ending. Should have give Miyazaki sensei one last time an Oscar. When i watch a Gibli movie, i always think that humanity still has some hope left..his movies shall live forever.
This is one of my most favorited anime movies of all time. As other comments have mentioned there are a lot of hidden meanings and subtle messages in this movie that delve into politics, innovation, morality, human ingenuity, and etc. But the one thing that stood out to me the most is the line " the wind rises, we must try to live". This line alone for me encapsulates the core message that permeates throughout the movie. You have this dream, but the wind rises, meaning change is coming, unexpected ventures that will challenge you deeply. Yet we still must try to live, meaning we have to find our way around it and fulfill our dreams how we can. Maybe we won’t be capable to get what we wanted exactly the way we did, and maybe reality is so harsh we might not be able to get much. But we must try to live because it’s the only way to be happy. Try to live, the world is more real and beautiful than what you would first think of it. Life is about hope, sadness, reality, and dreams. So whatever makes you happy, live the way you want, that’s what you have to do when change comes. Your dream is your goal, try to live the path you choose to walk. God, I love this movie. This and Princess Mononoke are definitely my favorite Studio Ghibli movies.
