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The Wind Rises is a 2013 animated film by Hayao Miyazaki that portrays a fictionalised account of Japanese aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi. It follows his engineering career from his student days at the University of Tokyo in 1923 through the first test flight of the Mitsubishi Ka-14 on the 4th of February 1935, intertwined with a fictional romance inspired by Tatsuo Hori's 1937 semi-autobiographical novel The Wind Has Risen.
Hayao Miyazaki wrote and directed The Wind Rises. It was his first feature film since Ponyo in 2008, and was originally intended to be his final feature before he reversed that decision and went on to direct The Boy and the Heron.
The Wind Rises was the highest-grossing Japanese film of 2013 at the domestic box office. The Japanese DVD release sold 128,784 units up to the 7th of December 2014.
The Wind Rises won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Hayao Miyazaki won the award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production at the 41st Annie Awards, and composer Joe Hisaishi received the Japan Academy Prize for Best Music Score. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
The film drew criticism in Japan from the political right and from the Japan Society for Tobacco Control. South Korean critics argued that the Mitsubishi Zero depicted in the film symbolised Japanese military aggression and that Korean forced labour had assembled many of the aircraft. Miyazaki also published an essay criticising a proposal by Japan's Liberal Democratic Party to amend Article 9 of the constitution.
Joe Hisaishi composed the 32-track score and conducted it with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. The soundtrack was released in Japan on the 17th of July 2013 by Tokuma Japan Communications, and Hisaishi received the Japan Academy Prize for Best Music Score for his work.