Jul 20, 2013
126 min
Full-HD

The Wind Rises (2013)

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Category

Drama Animation Romance War History

Country

Japan

Companies

Studio Ghibli Nippon Television Network Corporation dentsu Hakuhodo DY Media Partners The Walt Disney Company (Japan) d-rights TOHO

Hideaki Anno

Jiro Horikoshi (voice)

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Honjô (voice)

Miori Takimoto

Naoko Satomi (voice)

Masahiko Nishimura

Kurokawa (voice)

Stephen Alpert

Castorp (voice)

Mansai Nomura

Giovanni Battista (voice)

Jun Kunimura

Hattori (voice)

Mirai Shida

Kayo Horikoshi (voice)

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