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    Unique ID Code: 0000165162
    Added by: David Simpson
    Added on: 14/9/2014 17:14
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    The Wind Rises

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    Hayao Miyazaki's final masterpiece
    Certificate: PG
    Running Time: 121 Mins
    Retail Price: £19.99
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    Content Type: Movie

    Synopsis:
    Hayao Miyazaki writes and directs this Japanese animated feature from Studio Ghibli. As a young boy, the bespectacled Jiro Horikoshi (voice of Hideaki Anno) dreams of flying a plane but when he learns he will be unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight, he instead decides to be an aircraft designer.

    On September 1st 1923 Jiro is travelling by train when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes. He assists fellow passenger Naoko (Miori Takimoto) and her maid who suffers an injury. He doesn't meet Naoko again till many years later after he has graduated university and has worked on various designing jobs, without finding much success. The two fall for each other and become engaged but Naoko is suffering from tuberculosis. While they try to enjoy the time they have together Jiro continues to work on designing his first successful plane.

    Special Features:
    Feature Storyboards
    Original Japanese Trailers and TV Spots
    Trailers

    Related Websites:
    http://www.studiocanal.co.uk/
    http://www.studiocanal.co.uk/Film/Details/64d82e63-6834-4c12-b59b-a31500bd65b2

    Video Tracks:
    1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen

    Audio Tracks:
    Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono English
    Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Japanese

    Subtitle Tracks:
    English

    Directed By:
    Hayao Miyazaki

    Written By:

    Starring:
    Hideaki Anno
    Miori Takimoto
    Hidetoshi Nishijima
    Jun Kunimura
    Mansai Nomura
    Masahiko Nishimura
    Mirai Shida
    Stephen Alpert
    Emily Blunt
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Stanley Tucci
    Werner Herzog
    John Krasinski
    Martin Short

    Music From:
    Joe Hisaishi

    Director of Photography:
    Atsushi Okui

    Editor:
    Takeshi Seyama

    Producer:
    Toshio Suzuki

    Executive Producer:
    Koji Hoshino

    Distributor:
    Studiocanal

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