
Movies that feel like The Wind Rises (2013)
If you loved The Wind Rises, the closest films we have are Only Yesterday (1991), Millennium Actress (2002) and Your Name. (2016). All three share The Wind Rises's whimsical and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max and Retrocrush and others, checked against today's data.
If The Wind Rises hit the spot, these will too

Anime sits at the heart of each
The difference: Not nearly as epic as The Wind Rises

The same two preoccupations: japan, and earthquake
The difference: None of the scale that defines The Wind Rises

Whimsical where it counts, contemplative underneath

Both keep circling back to adult animation

Epic and romantic in the same breath
The difference: Leans adventure where The Wind Rises does not

Tender drama, and it commits to that

History with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Both trade on romance more than on being romance

Love is the engine of both

Both built around love
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Tender animation in both cases

Drama built on stillness, twice over
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