Howl's Moving Castle

Name: Howl's Moving Castle
Genre: Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Released: 2004-09-09
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 8.389

★ 8,4 /10 (11,569 Votes)

2004 JA 119 min

Overview

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

Stream

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Release date

09/09/2004

Votes

11,569

Popularity

54.9

Love comes first.

Genres

Fantasy Animation Adventure

Status

Released

Original title

ハウルの動く城

Language

Runtime

119 min

Budget

$24,000,000

Revenue

$236,049,757

Website

gkids.com

Chieko Baisho

Sophie (voice)

Takuya Kimura

Howl (voice)

Akihiro Miwa

Witch of the Waste (voice)

Tatsuya Gashuin

Calcifer (voice)

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Markl (voice)

Mitsunori Isaki

Kosho (voice)

Yo Oizumi

Prince Justin / Turnip Head (voice)

Akio Otsuka

King of Ingary (voice)

Daijirō Harada

Heen (voice)

Haruko Katō

Madame Suliman (voice)

Makoto Yasumura

(voice)

Manabu Muraji

(voice)

Keiko Tsukamoto

(voice)

Tsuzuki Kayako

(voice)

Seiji Sasaki

(voice)

Hiroshi Takahashi

(voice)

Mayuno Yasokawa

(voice)

Rio Kanno

(voice)

Kojiro Takahashi

(voice)

Akiyoshi Sakurai

(voice)

Momoko Kurita

(voice)

Mina Meguro

(voice)

Yasuhiro Ohara

(voice)

Akio Tanaka

(voice)

Rina Yamada

(voice)

Tomoe Hanba

(voice)

Naoto Kaji

(voice)

Teruo Seki

(voice)

Shinobu Katabuchi

(voice)

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Masako Inui

(voice)

Yohei Ohbayashi

(voice)

Takeshi Miyajima

(voice)

Yukiko Mizuochi

(voice)

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Maki Koizumi

(voice)

Nobito Nishioka

(voice)

Teppei Akashi

(voice)

Reiko Onishi

(voice)

Yumiko Ogata

(voice)

Hiroyuki Kamikawaji

(voice)

Tomohiko Kiyota

(voice)

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Kaori Kaneko

(voice)

Aiko Nakajima

(voice)

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Jun Kuwahara

(voice)

Yuta Kobayashi

(voice)

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Yuko Nomura

(voice)

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Tamayo Fukushi

(voice)

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Atsushi Takeya

(voice)

Yoshifumi Nakagawa

(voice)

Hiroki Tanaka

(voice)

Yohei Matsukado

(voice)

Akane Fujisaki

(voice)

Izumi Matsuoka

(voice)

Tomonori Yanagibashi

(voice)

Ken Yasuda

(voice)

Hiroyuki Morisaki

(voice)

Shigeyuki Totsugi

(voice)

Takuma Otoo

(voice)

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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.

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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…

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