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Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Hauru no ugoku shiro (original title)
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chieko Baishô ...
Sofî (voice)
Takuya Kimura ...
Hauru (voice)
Akihiro Miwa ...
Arechi no Majo (voice)
Tatsuya Gashûin ...
Karushifâ (voice)
Ryûnosuke Kamiki ...
Marukuru (voice)
Mitsunori Isaki ...
Koshô (voice)
Yô Ôizumi ...
Kakashi no Kabu (voice)
Akio Ôtsuka ...
Kokuô (voice)
Daijirô Harada ...
Hin (voice)
Haruko Katô ...
Sariman (voice)
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Grandma Sophie (voice)
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Howl (voice)
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Witch of the Waste (voice)
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Madame Suliman (voice)
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Young Sophie (voice)
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Storyline

Sophie, a young, beautiful girl works at a hat shop. One day, Sophie meets Howl, a boy who's mysterious and starts to take a liking to Sophie. While she was in her hat shop, Sophie meets the witch of the waist, who curses Sophie to be an old woman. Trying to hide her ugliness from her family, Sophie runs away and finds herself at Howl's castle. Written by KawaiiEmo

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for frightening images and brief mild language | See all certifications »

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17 June 2005 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Howl's Moving Castle  »

Box Office

Budget:

$24,200,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$3,474,751 (Japan) (19 November 2004)

Gross:

$4,710,455 (USA) (30 September 2005)
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Trivia

Sophie's city was modeled after Colmar, France. See more »

Goofs

When Sophie leaves her bedroom, her dress has turned from green to blue. However, she couldn't have changed dresses because none of them would fit her after she was transformed (wider, much shorter, etc.). See more »

Quotes

Old Sophie: Do you know what Madame Suliman said? She said that Howl's heart was stolen by a demon. Tell me now, what do you know?
Calcifer: I'm so sorry but that would be confidential information.
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Soundtracks

Sekai no Yakusoku
Written by Yumi Kimura
Performed by Chieko Baisho
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User Reviews

 
Thank you so much for this movie Mr. Miyazaki
1 October 2004 | by See all my reviews

I Don't get words to express what I felt when coming out of the cinema, Howl's Moving Castle is an absolutely fantastic film and has even out Laputa and Totoro as my favourite Miyazaki film.

The story is amazing and the characters and creatures are as excellently crafted and fun to watch as ever. The voice actors and music are perfect Joe Hisaishi in my opinion is the best contemporary composer.

My only criticism (very little) is maybe the ending (last minutes) that rises suddenly, far from the habitual perfection of the catharsis final of the Miyazaki's films but nothing important

The movie has a really bad thing of the film: THE LONG WAITING TO SEE IT AGAIN!

ESSENTIAL


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