Many anime fans acclaim writer-director Hiroyuki Yamaga's Wings of Honneamise as a masterpiece, but general audiences may react less enthusiastically. Honneamise is a small country in a para...( read more  read more... )llel world very similar to Earth. Shiro Lhadatt, the least impressive cadet in the air force flight school, volunteers to become the first astronaut in a controversial space program. Training toughens his body, while the priggish evangelist Riqunni challenges him to discipline his spirit. In one distasteful sequence, Shiro attempts to rape her. The next morning he starts to apologize, only to have her apologize for braining him with a candlestick, a scene certain to infuriate feminists. Despite an invasion by a hostile country, Shiro gets into space and delivers a ponderous homily from his capsule.

Wings was made by a group of young artists in 1987, and with a record- setting budget. Art director Hiromasa Ogura's lavish designs blend '80s high-tech with art nouveau, and Yamaga's leaden pacing gives viewers the time to study every detail. Fans of Honneamise acclaim it as a critical meditation on the illusions and follies of the human race, which suggests that profundity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. (Ages 13 and older for violence, attempted rape, and occasional profanity) --Charles Solomon

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Unrated, 124 min.

Directed by: Hiroyuki Yamaga

Release Date: June 1, 1987

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DVD Release Date: November 28, 2000

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  • April 12, 2007
    Kinda boring.
  • April 21, 2006
    Slow moving but always intriguing. I like that the characters are all depicted as being imperfect, yet in the end it's the voyage into space that gives them purpose.
  • September 9, 2009
    Simplemente magnifica, algíén tendrá una versión remasterizada? del equipo que despues diera vida a Evangelion y a FLCL, infaltable.
  • January 23, 2008
    Why are anime movies put on here? They're not even movies in the literal sense.
  • August 27, 2007
    An ode to the history of the civilizatioin. The reexplanation about ourselves in an atemporal way. First Gainax work.
  • August 21, 2007
    i would like to see this one..
  • July 15, 2007
    Watch the Japanese language version with English subtitles.
  • July 1, 2007
    A slow film, but I thought it was unique in how it developed space flight and the contraversy behind it.
  • June 25, 2007
    Great story. Amazing soundtrack.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A visually sensational two-hour extravaganza... full review

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