How do you live?
Miyazaki desperately seeks an answer to this question as he makes it again to the author of the original book, in which the film is titled in Japanese (“Kimitachi wa dou ikiru ka?”; “How do you live?”). The octogenarian and multi-award winning director demonstrates his non-response with an exposure of his self on screen for over 120 minutes; that is, a conscious work on his personas as an artist, as a father, as a human being…
Only alive can we love and be loved. It is the very thing that keeps us moving forward. So keep on living.
Kaze Tachinu is the eleventh film by renowned Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, who has been bringing classics after classics at Studio Ghibli. His most recent film, released in 2013, however, is an almost palpable way of presenting a philosophy and worldview that permeates all his filmography.
The dramatic effect of the drama is very much in its setting…
