Film

Howl's Moving Castle

2004 · 1h 59m · Fantasy · Animation · Adventure

The two lived there.

IMDb

8.2

Rotten Tomatoes

88%

Metacritic

82

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.

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)

• Hayao MiyazakiExecutive Producer · Screenplay · Director
• Diana Wynne JonesNovel
• Tomohiko IshiiProducer
• Toshio SuzukiProducer
• Atsushi OkuiDirector of Photography
• Joe HisaishiOriginal Music Composer
• Takeshi SeyamaEditor

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Release date

September 9, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

PG

Budget

$24,000,000

Revenue

$236,049,757

Genres

Fantasy, Animation, Adventure

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