15 Great Movies From The 2010s That Are Frustratingly Underrated
5. The Wind Rises
Plot: The story of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed fighter planes for Japan during WWII.
Hayao Miyazaki is arguably the greatest animation director of all time and the films he has given us in the past are frighteningly close to perfect. The Wind Rises was meant to be his swansong and luckily for all of us, he isn't retiring yet after all, but still, given that this was meant to be his last film it's bizarre how little attention it gets.
The Wind Rises is utterly glorious. As can be expected from a Miyazaki film, it's bittersweet, emotionally powerful and beautifully animated, but it's also a more adult work from the filmmaker that tackles weightier themes, making it possibly his most mature and thought-provoking film to date.
The Wind Rises finds Miyazaki soaring to new thematic heights and is the work of an absolute cinematic master at the very top of his game. Anyone who misses this, especially fans of animation, is doing themselves a disservice.
It also deserved the Best Animated Feature Oscar that year for, despite Frozen's excellence, it was 2013's best animated film, as well as arguably one of the best animated films of the 2010s.