Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Unfortunately this film lacked pretty much everything. Very little story line witch made the film bland and confusing at times. the over all pace of it was extremely slow and very boring to watch. Just to add to the already horrific attempt at romance in there was actually a scene where the main character goes to rape the girl he likes. She then goes on to say sorry the next day for defending her self against the attack and acts like nothing happens making it harder and harder to get behind the "hero" and the piss poor attempt at a animated movie. The only reason i have give this a 2* and not 0 is the artwork was amazing and had some stunning scenes and great animation and the artists deserve that credit but everything else about this film was terrible and i'm appalled at how highly this has been rated.

The Wings of Honneamise deserves a lot more attention that it initially got back in 1987; it was a commercial disappointment when it came out in Japan and it didn't get a wide global release leading the film to fade into obscurity. However, with the blossoming otaku fan base becoming an ever-growing international phenomenon some people have started taking notice of this movie again, albeit in rather small numbers but growing.'Wings' plays like Japan's answer to Stanley Kubrick's hard-science- fiction masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey', although unlike Kubrick's film this one takes place on a parallel version of Earth. It follows the journey of ridiculed astronauts who are part of this space agency which hasn't made any progress for generations, almost a commentary on US government-owned agency NASA, and the protagonist of the film, Shiro, hopes to become the first man to get into space.'Wings' is beautifully directed, showing us some of the most detailed animation to ever come out of any anime from the 80s, well written and the music is odd yet fitting for the movie; you don't hear a soundtrack this non-linear for an animated movie. The film is an experience: an artistic and metaphorical story centering on technological progress and humankind's ambitions shown as an eternally inspiring ideology.Is there anything the movie doesn't quite get right? Well, some of the animation does get jerky and not every single frame is perfect, but by god does it look damn good considering that it's already nearly thirty years old.I hope that my review has been helpful and may yet promote this film in some form or another. The Wings of Honneamise deserves to be seen by more people, and should certainly be seen by science fiction aficionados.

I think the posts above cover just about all important aspects of this remarkable film. I noted a lot of people seems quite upset about one certain attempted rape scene, after which the girl apologizes. At first I was quite confused since that particular scene was cut from my subbed vhs-copy. But I'll take the liberty of commenting anyway.It's pretty obvious that Shiro's world and society are quite patriarchic and generally male-dominated. There are no women in high places in society (none that we see at least) and all female characters are either girlfriends, widows or prostitutes. I my opinion, this is not very far from, say, Japanese society (even more so in the 80's, things have changed.) Even now, it is not uncommon for women to blame themselves for rapes or assaults, not just in Japan, but everywhere in the world. The general idea seems to be that, because the woman is attractive or seductive, the man couldn't "help" himself and was a victim of his own carnal desires. Many women too adopts this way of thought, and hence blames themselves, for having been "seductive."I believe this is why the girl were able to apologize to Shiro. Because that is what is expected from a good wife (or would-be wife.)

I was so excited to have finally purchased this movie. It should be in everyones Anime collection. The film does not disappoint! But the DVD is another matter. To my disappointment this DVD is riddled with encoding problems. The picture is fuzzy and toward the layer switch it breaks up (pixelization). I own about 250 DVDs many of them with dual layers and this is the only one that has this problem. I know this DVD may react differently to different players. But my Panasonic did not like this disc. This disc should be recalled and a new remastered reissue made.