The Wind Rises, New Miyazaki!

[meat]

Miyazaki said in a press conference that he's retiring due to declining health, so this is most likely his last film. That said, this is not really an animation, but more like a romantic drama/documentary film that happened to use animation as medium - and very well at that. The characters are not characters that sometimes do and say things for the sake of story flow and writing, but they're more like complex, unpredictable human beings. It's completely adult-oriented, and I wouldn't recommend children or youngsters to go see it - they'll be bored and probably not understand why some things happened the way it did due to age, culture, and historic knowledge differences. It's also quite lengthy.

I think it's out in the US already, and will be fully released to public next Friday.