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1	* {{Applicability}}:
2	** Some have read into the film's depiction of an artist's simultaneous joy in the creative aspects of his work and trepidation at its eventual uses Miyazaki's own mixture of pride and enjoyment in his films and trepidation at many modern trends in the medium he dislikes.
3	** The ending scene could be seen as a parallel to Miyazaki's announced retirement.
4	* AwardSnub:
5	** At the Annie Awards, where ''The Wind Rises'' was only nominated for three awards and only won Best Writing in a Animated Feature Award for Hayao Miyazaki.
6	** The movie was nominated for but did not win the Best Animated Picture category of the Academy Awards 2014, which many did not agree with.
7	* BrokenBase: The biopic part of the film: Is it a romanticized version of a designer's life or is it more saccharine and fictionalized than ''Film/PatchAdams''? Should the consequences of the planes that were built have been acknowledged more? Should Jiro have been shown regretting what he's created? This will most likely be debated long after Miyazaki is gone.
8	* CargoShip: Jiro and his obsession with planes. An in-universe example also, when Jiro reveals he's engaged, Kurokawa laughs and admits he thought Jiro would marry an airplane.
9	* FriendlyFandoms: Due to similar subject matter, the film has this with ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}''.
10	* GeniusBonus: When Jiro notes that wood and canvas can be as good as metal for airplane, he was not the only one to reach such a conclusion: the Allies designed the De Havilland Mosquito, a fast, deadly effective and surprisingly durable tactical bomber made of largely plywood.
11	** Wood and canvas would have been more typical material than metal for planes built in 1920s and 30s. Stressed metal skin was a new technology until at least mid-1930s and many World War 2 era planes continued to be built at least partly of wood and canvas because they could be manufactured with less skilled labor and without expensive and costly industrial equipment: British Hawker Hurricane, Soviet Lavochkin and Yakovlev fighters until 1944, and even early variants of American Vought Corsair were made partly (or even largely) of wood and/or canvas.
12	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Partial example. Creator/HideakiAnno had mostly been directing or animating throughout his career. His acting repertoire consists of a role in a parody of the ''[[Franchise/UltraSeries Ultraman]]'' franchise and the occasional cameo. In this film it’s quite noticeable that he’s not a professional VA, speaking in a somewhat more nasalised and less clear voice than the rest of the cast, but he makes emotional scenes work very well.
13	* MemeticMutation:
14	** The movie poster has become a source of many parodies lately.
15	** [[http://iloveitairplanesarefascinating.ytmnd.com/ "I LOVE IT! AIRPLANES ARE FASCINATING."]]
16	* SignatureScene: Naoko painting on the hill, and her and Jiro's interactions on the hill. Without watching trailers, one would think this was a romantic drama rather than a biography about a WWII aerospace engineer.
17	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Israeli cable company HOT [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDGTWnIAdi8 put this film on their children’s VOD menu]], dubbed to Hebrew. While it’s not as bad as ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' or ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', the subject material, and certainly [[spoiler:Naoko [[BloodFromTheMouth coughing blood]] and dying]], are hardly child-appropriate material. In America, the film was rated PG-13 film and released by Creator/TouchstonePictures.

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