2012-12-13, 06:13 | Link #1 |
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Kaze Tachinu (New Hayao Miyazaki film)
http://kazetachinu.jp/
Kaze Tachinu (The Wind has Risen) Original Work/Script/Director: Hayao Miyazaki Music: Joe Hisaishi Animation Production: Studio Ghibli This is Hayao Miyazaki's big Summer 2013 movie. It tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the Zero Fighter, from the the age of 10 to the height of World War 2 - a story spanning 30 years. The fictionized biopic is also framed around a love story based on the novel of the same name (Kaze Tachinu) by Japanese novelist Tatsuo Hori. In the novel, it tells a story of a young man and his young fiancee who dies of tuberculosis, and he returns to the village where they first met to spend his winter after her death. Based on previous interviews with Miyazaki, we know that the movie will also cover the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. It is a large scale historical drama which will have many crowd scenes and cover various historical events. The tagline on the poster reads "Show respect for Jiro Horikoshi and Tatsuo Hori. We must try to live." |
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2012-12-14, 12:49 | Link #8 |
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Em. I know this. I just said that grave of fireflies is the only "serious" Ghilbi's film I don't like. I really can't understand why people like it so much. Yes, it's quite realistic drama but the only one to blame is the protagonist himself. If he won't be so stupid, none of the dramatic things would happen.
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2013-07-19, 20:47 | Link #9 |
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First four-minute trailer released just yesterday, showcasing the extravagant animation (watch out for the crowd scenes!) that most people expect from Studio Ghibli. The actual footage starts from the 1:17 mark.
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Indie film website Twitch has the full trailer here.
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2013-07-23, 21:25 | Link #15 | |
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2013-07-24, 04:26 | Link #16 |
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The controversy pretty much shows Asia is still very sensible about the WWII topic and have never quite moved on, which is a very sharp contrast with Western Europe where countries like Germany and France decided to move on.
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2013-09-15, 23:11 | Link #19 |
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Saw the film earlier this week.
It's a good film, and much better than the previous few offerings from the studio. Inevitably there will be a comparison with the "classics" of Ghibli, and the answer is that they are just too different, though Miyazaki's trademarks can be found in full force. Fans of Miyazaki will likely enjoy it, while fans of a few specific films of his may not. Although the film is based on a real-life engineer, it takes many liberties. For example, there is a star-crossed love story that is borrowed from another source (Personally, I would say that the weaker moments of the film are in this sideplot). The film is, therefore, more of a fictionalized account of a historical figure than a biography. In the film, a few scenes portray Jiro as an idealistic creator of beautiful airplanes, who is occasionally haunted by the knowledge that they are used in war, but avoiding confrontation with this reality. This may be Miyazaki's projection of himself onto his subject rather than an portrayal of the historical Jiro's thoughts. I haven't read any of the writings of the original Jiro, so it is only my assumption, but during those scenes, I felt Miyazaki speaking rather than Jiro speaking. I believe this is mainly the source of the controversy. If taken as a work of fiction, the message of the film, and the lack of resolution to its fundamental conflict, is quite compelling and easy to identify with. However, if taken as a biographical film, and without hearing any of Miyazaki's intentions, it's easy to interpret things the wrong way. Miyazaki created a film to celebrate a brilliant engineer and what he perceives as an admirable product of Japanese ingenuity. But in his attempt to try and separate the engineering from the warfare, to some audiences it may look like an attempt to whitewash the life of a man who, as the review above says, designed fighter planes for Imperial Japan. Alas, a controversial topic in a controversial time. It's a good film.
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