The Wind Rises

宮崎映画、「風立ちぬ」見ました。

前回オットと日本に行ったときに公開間近でポスターが張ってあったのを見てから、１年半たってやっと見れました。

期待超えた！
大人な映画だね。「紅の豚」並に。そして「紅の豚」並に、飛行機に対するロマンであふれているね。

とてもよく出来てたと思う。私は好きよ、これ。最近の宮崎映画の中では「もののけ姫」以来に好きと言える映画。私の中で、一番はナウシカで、2番はラピュタで、3番はトトロなんだけど、その横に「紅の豚」とともに並べていいぐらいだと思う。

Watched The Wind Rises.

A movie based on a life of a real-life aircraft engineer, Jiro Horikoshi, who designed the Zero fighter, most famously known as an airplane used by the Kamikaze suicide fighters during the WWII.

It was a very beautiful movie. I usually do not describe a movie as beautiful, but this movie was. Also like one of the actors said in the special feature, it was shamelessly romantic, both the love of flying and the love story of Jiro and Nahoko.

First of all, characters' movements were very carefully drawn, like the way a guy gets a pack of cigarette out of his pocket and the way he lights the cigarette, especially. The background is drawn in detail, and overall, the hand-drawn animation feels very warm and it has depth to it.

Also, of course this being the Miyazaki movie, the flight sequences are so quintessential Miyazaki movie and romantic. And, ah, the dream sequences, too.

To summarize, this move was VERY Miyazaki, every bit Miyazaki. Done very carefully and done in a way that every frame counts and planned for.

If somebody ask me my top 3 of Miyazaki movies, I would say: #1-Valley of the Wind, #2-Castle in the Sky, and #3-My Neighbor Totoro. This list stays. But I don't think The Wind Rises was less than these 3. It's like, well, it is not dramatic like Valley of the Wind or Castle in the Sky and it's just not like Totoro, but it's kind of Porco Rosso. It is a very mature movie. Not for a little kid to fantasize.

Obviously, we watched this movie in Japanese with English subtitles, so I did not hear any of the English voice over and I did not even know who did the voice. But the special feature had some interviews of the voice over actors and well, I guess this movie was pretty much a family movie: Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt, and her husband, whose name I don't even really know. I might watch it again in English.