The Wind Rises English Voice Cast

“What I love about acting is becoming somebody else, and when you’re just doing the voice and the animation is providing the visuals, you can really become someone else,” Gordon-Levitt, a fan of Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away (2001) told USA Today. “The Wind Rises is more grounded in human beings and a historical moment in time. Yet there’s still a flavor of magic in it as you go inside the mind of this aeronautics engineer and you see him walking on the wings of airplanes in his dream.”

Producer Frank Marshall added, “We credit the beauty and magic of Mr. Miyazaki’s final film for bringing together this phenomenal group of performers.”

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CAST FOR THE WIND RISES

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt — main character Jiro Horikoshi
• Emily Blunt — love interest Nahoko Satomi
• John Krasinski — Honjo, Jiro's college pal and fellow aviation engineer
• Martin Short — Kurokawa, Jiro's grumpy boss
• Stanley Tucci — Caproni, Italian airplane creator
• Mandy Patinkin — Hattori, senior designer at Mitsubishi
• William H. Macy — Satomi, Nahoko's father
• Werner Herzog — the mysterious Castorp
• Mae Whitman — Kayo, Jiro's younger sister, as well as Kinu, Nahoko's caretaker
• Jennifer Grey — Mrs. Kurokawa
• Darren Criss — Katayama, one of Jiro's engineering colleagues
• Elijah Wood — Sone, another of Jiro's colleagues
• Ronan Farrow — Mitsubishi employee