Japan Synopsis
風立ちぬ
“We must live.”
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.
Audience Engagement
2,662 audience reviews — more than 99% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 93th percentile among Japan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Wind Rises. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Studio Ghibli
Drama + Animation in Japan
730 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Animation genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Wind Rises itself).
The 2012–2014 Japan Window
The Wind Rises holds position #91 of 530 Japan films in the 2012–2014 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Wind Rises premiered alongside 177 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 6m runtime, production spent $238K per minute on screen and earned $936K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 177 other Japan films in 2013.
The 2814th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Wind Rises, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- tuberculosis · 2
- great depression · 1
- airplane · 17
- pacific war · 15
- earthquake · 14
- flying · 7
- anime · 711
- japan · 454
- love · 123
- adult animation · 101
- biography · 75
- world war ii · 55
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #760 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (83rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.9 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #321 of 1,933 (top 17%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Spoken Languages | French, German, Italian, Japanese |
| Production Companies | Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, The Walt Disney Company (Japan) |
| Runtime | 2h 6m |
| Release Date | July 20, 2013 |
| IMDb | tt2013293 |