The Wind Rises (2013)

I love Studio Ghibli, I always have and always will. But this film was different from all the others. It was about the life and passions of an aeronautical engineer named Jiro Horikoshi. It was touching, emotional and very, very real. The animation was the best I'd ever seen, it went above and beyond the already extremely high standard of other Ghibli films,the lush waving fields, the outstanding fluffy clouds and the amazing planes flying through the crisp blue Japanese sky. If the story was not enough to make me cry, the animation certainly was. I'd always loved fantasy films for example Naussica: Valley Of The Wind, another Miyazaki masterpiece, but this film blew all of those films clean out of the water. It was only made better when I researched online, to find that Jiro Horikoshi was a real person, although in real life many of the details were very different. One thing that's for sure although Miyazaki may have left Studio Ghibli, the wind is still rising.