Howl's Moving Castle

Sophie, a young milliner, is transformed into an elderly woman when a witch who enters her shop curses her. She encounters the enigmatic wizard Howl and becomes entangled in his resistance to fighting for the king.

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Hayao Miyazaki

Ryosuke Kiyokawa

Yosuke Toba

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Akio Otsuka

King of Ingary (voice)

Hayao Miyazaki

Takuya Kimura

Howl (voice)

Makoto Yasumura

(voice)

Ken Yasuda

(voice)

Chieko Baisho

Sophie (voice)

Seiji Sasaki

(voice)

Akihiro Miwa

Witch of the Waste (voice)

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Markl (voice)

Tomoe Hanba

(voice)

Mayuno Yasokawa

(voice)

Takuma Otoo

(voice)

Haruko Katō

Madame Suliman (voice)

Shigeyuki Totsugi

(voice)

Rio Kanno

(voice)

Yo Oizumi

Prince Justin / Turnip Head (voice)

Hiroyuki Morisaki

(voice)

Tsuzuki Kayako

(voice)

Hiroki Tanaka

(voice)

Daijirō Harada

Heen (voice)

Manabu Muraji

(voice)

Yohei Matsukado

(voice)

Mitsunori Isaki

Kosho (voice)

Tatsuya Gashûin

Calcifer (voice)

Keiko Tsukamoto

(voice)

Hiroshi Takahashi

(voice)

Kojiro Takahashi

(voice)

Akiyoshi Sakurai

(voice)

Momoko Kurita

(voice)

Mina Meguro

(voice)

Yasuhiro Ohara

(voice)

Akio Tanaka

(voice)

Rina Yamada

(voice)

Naoto Kaji

(voice)

Teruo Seki

(voice)

Shinobu Katabuchi

(voice)

Masako Inui

(voice)

Yohei Ohbayashi

(voice)

Takeshi Miyajima

(voice)

Yukiko Mizuochi

(voice)

Maki Koizumi

(voice)

Nobito Nishioka

(voice)

Teppei Akashi

(voice)

Reiko Onishi

(voice)

Yumiko Ogata

(voice)

Hiroyuki Kamikawaji

(voice)

Tomohiko Kiyota

(voice)

Kaori Kaneko

(voice)

Aiko Nakajima

(voice)

Jun Kuwahara

(voice)

Yuta Kobayashi

(voice)

Yuko Nomura

(voice)

Tamayo Fukushi

(voice)

Atsushi Takeya

(voice)

Yoshifumi Nakagawa

(voice)

Akane Fujisaki

(voice)

Izumi Matsuoka

(voice)

Tomonori Yanagibashi

(voice)

Ryosuke Kiyokawa

Yosuke Toba

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GenresFantasy, Animation, Adventure

Runtime1h 59 mins

Released on09 Sep 2004

Languageja

Age RatingPG

Produced InJapan

Reviews

Andres Gomez

9/10

Really good movie staging in a fictional center European country. The drawings are great and the story is as delicate as any other from Miyazaki.

CinemaSerf

8/10

Certainly my favourite Miyazaki film. The animations are a touch angular, but colourfully and stylishly depict this story of a beautiful young girl who is cursed by an evil witch. In despair, she sets off, directionless, from home and comes across "Howl" and his moving castle - and the sprite "Calcifer". She begins a journey of discovery - about herself as much as anything. "Howl" - the ultimate free spirit is also facing down demons of his own that he is struggling to reconcile with. "Calcifer" provides the conduit for them to get to better understand each other and also much of the humour as they seek to break the spells that bind them. This works on many different levels and each time I see it, I seem get something different from it.

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