The Wind Rises Soundtrack: Joe Hisaishi - A Journey

[TheJoseph]

There are lots of subtleties and hidden messages in this movie about politics, innovation, morality and human ingenuity. Scientists and Innovators can really relate on to this animation. Wubba Lubba Dub Dub

[misslacuna]

A fun fact nobody asked for:
Studio Ghibli's name comes from the aircraft Caproni CA.309 Ghibli which was designed by Caproni.

[Nusha]

ghibli makes me fall in love with life

[NameNik]

"Listen to me, Japanese boy. Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality".


I love this quote. I think it fits well with any profession connected with art. Artists do their business not for money, but for creating something that never existed. I want to become a music composer. I want to compose music for something as great as Studio Ghibli movies. For me music is "beautiful dreams", and I want to turn these dreams into reality.

[RhythmGrizz]

the wind is rising. we must try to live.

i cry because as i get older, i find that just being alive gets so hard

[seandavis]

The ending where he walks off with Caproni in his dream is a very subtle ending to Hayao Miyazaki's career.

[toridetherisingwind]

Coming from a family deeply rooted in aviation and engineering since its earliest stages (of aviation), and being an aspiring engineer in mechatronics myself, this film resonated very deeply with me.
I see my dad, who is in his late 60s now, sitting, bored at his desk, mulling over endless safety procedures and regulations he needs to conform designs to, and I know that more than anything else in that moment he wishes for a drafting desk and stand, pen and paper and a vision to create something beautiful.
When this film came out, I took my dad to go see it. Needless to say he grumbled about it being 'for children' and that he hadn't watched cartoons in years.
By the end of it he came out saying it was one of the best films he'd seen, with a tear in his eye.

I believe it resonated so deeply in him, and to an extent myself because he can appreciate and understand everything Jirou goes through in the film, and he understands the wish to make a beautiful plane, all to his own design so that he might see it fly someday. I honestly think sometimes he longs for the days when such things were possible, and it doesn't take teams of hundreds of engineers just to create a single part of a new design. This movie transported him, for an all to short two hours, to that time and that place.

Thanks for reading to the end anyway :)

[Kitiara]

What do you think, Japanese boy? Is the wind still rising? #crying

[lordgaben]

Poor Jiro, the right man in the wrong time.

[abigailflynn]

I can't believe this soundtrack lost to Frozen.

[callme_avocado]

Sometimes, your true love can't be with you for the whole life.

[MrsAnimesmangas]

This movie is my favourite Hayao Miyazaki movie. I think it´s so unique and even personal for Miyazaki. Since this movie didn´t receive as much recognition as the others movies it made me kinda sad. But this comment section for sure warms my heart :)

[alecfernandez]

The ending is quite ironic. Jiro was just a little kid who dreamed to make beautiful planes then many years later he created the Mitsubishi A6M "Zero". This fighter participated to the Attack of Pearl Harbor and was the icon of the Pacific War. In the beginning of the conflict, the Zero was the pride of Japan and was considered as the best fighter of the world in 1942 with its manoeuvrabilty and long range. The allies pilots nicknamed it "Terror of the Pacific". However after 1943, the Zero became obsolete when F6F, P51, P38 and F4U were introduced during the war.
At the end of war the mighty Zero ended as symbol of despair and tragedy. Thousands were used for kamikazes attacks. Thousands of young pilots lost their lives in those Zeroes.

How do you feel when your creation was used to start a war, killing thousands of pilots and condemned Japan to its destruction with firebombing of cites ?

[KillzoneParadox]

" Everyone can ride planes, but we, we MAKE THEM!", " Use your 10 years wisely, Japanese Boy "

[cosmic.spaceman]

"Le vent se lève, il faut tenter de vivre!"

[올이브]

I CRIED SO MUCH at this film... And I'm crying now listening to this <3

[HarryMcKenzy]

joe hisaishi is the greatest composer of our time

[kafei-creme]

You don't know how much I need the 1:50 part to be longer

[ivancorredera]

Ugh, why can't we have more films with this kind of tone and atmosphere. Thank god for studio ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki.

[superstevebroes]

"She was beautiful...like the wind."