
Movies that feel likeThe Wind Rises (2013)
If you loved The Wind Rises, the closest films we have are Never Look Away (2018), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Bajirao Mastani (2015). All three share The Wind Rises' contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Asako I & II (2018).
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If The Wind Rises hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

One thread runs through both: japan
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

Both are built on the same subject: biography

Contemplative where it counts, epic underneath

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases


Common ground: world war ii
The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Wind Rises does

Both are built on the same subject: earthquake
The difference: Trades the scale of The Wind Rises for an angle of its own

Romance built on romance, twice over

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