8.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Wind Rises (2013)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.2
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film explores the moral complexities of an individual's passion for creation amidst the backdrop of war, focusing on personal dreams and relationships rather than advocating for a specific political ideology or solution to the societal problems it depicts.
The film features a cast that accurately reflects its early 20th-century Japanese setting, with no intentional race or gender swaps of roles that would typically be considered white in a Western context. The narrative focuses on the protagonist's personal and professional journey, portraying traditional identities neutrally or positively without explicit DEI critiques.
Secondary
The Wind Rises does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative primarily focuses on the heterosexual relationship between Jiro Horikoshi and Nahoko Satomi, alongside Jiro's professional life and passion for aircraft design, without any queer representation.
The Wind Rises is a biographical drama centered on the life and career of aircraft designer Jiro Horikoshi. The film does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or explore themes related to transsexual identity, focusing instead on historical events, engineering, and a heterosexual romance.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Wind Rises is a biographical drama based on the life of Jiro Horikoshi and Hayao Miyazaki's manga. All historical figures and original characters maintain their established genders from historical records or the source material, with no instances of a character being portrayed as a different gender than their canonical or historical depiction.
The Wind Rises is an original animated Japanese film based on the life of a historical Japanese figure, Jiro Horikoshi. All characters are depicted consistently with their established or implied Japanese (or German, for Castorp) race and ethnicity, without any changes from source material or historical record.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.8
7.8
Critic Ratings
8.8
8.3
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