When Hayao Miyazaki announced, in 2013, that The Wind Rises would be his final film, fans of animated filmmaking the world over, myself included, took it to mean the end of an era. For the ...

I should note from the onset that I am reviewing The Wind Rises from having seen the film in Japanese with subtitles. How much difference the English-language dub will make to the film, I don’t ...

After years of threats that the next film - and then the next - would be his last, acclaimed writer and director Hayao Miyazaki has truly delivered his final masterpiece, "The Wind Rises," which is ...

The animation legend’s first movie in five years — and probably his last ever -- “The Wind Rises” has become a box-office hit in Japan since opening in July and generated plenty of op-ed ...