Feb 21, 2014

"Kaze ga Risu" is released today only

Oscar-nominated The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki's last feature film (until he makes another one), opens in limited release today. The highest-grossing film in Japan last year, Wind Rises will screen at 21 American locations this weekend before expanding to approximately 450 U.S. theaters next week. Disney is the distributor of the English dub which features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martin Short, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Mandy Patinkin, among others.

The theaters that are screening the film this weekend include Kendall Square Cinema in Boston; Century Centre Cinema in Chicago; AMC Century City, ArcLight Sherman Oaks, Pacific El Capitan, and The Landmark in Los Angeles; Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis; BAM Rose Cinemas, Landmark Sunshine Cinema, and AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York; Hillcrest Cinemas in San Diego; Embarcadero Center Cinema and California Theatre in San Francisco; Tivoli Theatre in St. Louis; and Bethesda Row Cinema in Washington D.C.