Not a single word is spoken in the first U.S. trailer for legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises — but the quotes attached to the movie speak loudly enough. Among praise that ranges from "visually gorgeous" to "awe-inspiring," one critic calls The Wind Rises "perhaps the greatest animated film the cinema has ever seen." Even if that's a tad hyperbolic, it should help the uninitiated see why expectations are so high.
Will The Wind Rises be met with similar controversy when it reaches the United States for a full run in February? Unfortunately, many of the details about the U.S. release of The Wind Rises remain shrouded in mystery. Though the film's festival screenings and Oscar-qualifying screenings left the original Japanese voice track intact, the full release will include both a subtitled version and one with English voices dubbed in. Miyazaki's films tend to attract a wide range of A-list English-speaking actors — previous releases have included Matt Damon, Christian Bale, and Claire Danes — but we still don't know which actors will be lined up for the film's U.S. release.
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