Movie
The Wind Rises
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2013-07-20
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, History, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, The Walt Disney Company (Japan), d-rights, TOHO
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Hideaki Anno as Jiro Horikoshi (voice)
- Hidetoshi Nishijima as Honjô (voice)
- Miori Takimoto as Naoko Satomi (voice)
- Masahiko Nishimura as Kurokawa (voice)
- Stephen Alpert as Castorp (voice)
- Mansai Nomura as Giovanni Battista (voice)
- Jun Kunimura as Hattori (voice)
- Mirai Shida as Kayo Horikoshi (voice)
- Shinobu Otake as Mrs. Kurokawa (voice)
- Morio Kazama as Satomi (voice)
- Keiko Takeshita as Jirô's mother (voice)
- Sascha as German Security Guard / Flight Engineer (voice)
Crew
- Hayao Miyazaki - Director
- Hayao Miyazaki - Screenplay
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