Film4 to premier ‘The Wind Rises’ on 7th February

Film4 has announced on Twitter that it premier Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises on Saturday 7th February at 15.25.

On 23rd January Film4 posted the following tweet: “Heads up, Studio Ghibli fans! We’re screening Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises on Sat Feb 7th”, with the following link to their website displaying more information and an advert for the film. According to DigiGuide it appears that it will be shown with the English dub. It also claims it will be repeated at 18.25 on Friday 13th January.

The Wind Rises was Miyazaki’s last feature film he directed, although there still seems to be some confusion as to whether he has officially declared his retirement from making any more films, as he has already retired and returned several times during his career. 

Synopsis

As a young boy, the bespectacled Jiro Horikoshi 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 1st September 1923 Jiro is travelling by train when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes. He assists fellow passenger Naoko 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, and will eventually design one of the most iconic planes of World War II, the Zero.