Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises has held on to the top slot at Japan's box office for the past four weeks, and it will soon begin a tour on the festival circuit by playing at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie centers on Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero Fighter used by Japanese pilots in World War II. However, a new subtitled trailer shows the film goes much further than Horikoshi's creation, and examines the Japan's turbulent first half of the 20th century as the country struggled through an earthquake and economic fallout. Judging by the trailer, the film looks beautiful but also quite melancholy, and I was reminded of the powerful and incredibly sad Grave of the Fireflies (which coincidentally also comes from Studio Ghibli). Hit the jump for the trailer and more on the controversy Miyazaki's film has generated. The Wind Rises currently does not have a U.S. release date. Trailer via /Film. First, a little update on what's happening in Japanese politics [and a big thanks to The Dissolve for sorting this all out]. According FP Passport [via Gordon Campbell], Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has tried to reframe Japan's role in World War II: He's questioned "whether it is proper to say that Japan 'invaded' its neighbors" and questioned the 1995 official apology to "comfort women," the conscription prostitutes provided to Japanese troops during the war. Abe is currently pushing for a revision of the Japanese constitution that would not only ease the ...
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