Howl's Moving Castle

Name: Howl's Moving Castle
Genre: Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Released: 2004-09-09
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke Kamiki

The two lived there.

ハウルの動く城 (2004)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Video for the film Howl's Moving Castle — Official Trailer [Subtitled]

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Release date

2004-09-09

Country

Japan

Production

TOHO, Studio Ghibli, dentsu, Nippon Television Network Corporation, TFC, Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music And Entertainment, Mitsubishi, d-rights, Walt Disney Japan

Genre

Fantasy, Animation, Adventure

Budget

$24 000 000

Box office

$259 713 523

Website

https://gkids.com/films/howls-moving-castle/

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Actors

Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mitsunori Isaki, Yo Oizumi, Akio Otsuka, Daijirō Harada, Haruko Katō
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Scenario

Producer

Toshio Suzuki, Tomohiko Ishii, Hayao Miyazaki

Camera operator

Atsushi Okui

Composer

Joe Hisaishi

Artist

Kaori Fujii, Makiko Futaki, Yuko Sasaki

Audition

Editing

Takeshi Seyama
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Before filming began, the art team traveled through Europe in search of suitable landscapes for the film. They found them in the eastern province of Alsace, France.
According to director Hayao Miyazaki, the prototype for the moving castle was the hut on chicken legs from Russian folk tales.
Mamoru Hosoda was originally supposed to direct the film.
Hayao Miyazaki called this film the first anime for adults.
Hayao Miyazaki and Lauren Bacall, being long-time fans of each other's work, first met at a subtitled screening of the film in New York. Bacall reportedly jokingly asked Miyazaki if he was married.
The film was created on a computer, but the backgrounds and characters were drawn by hand and then digitized. The storyboard consisted of 1400 scenes and was completed on January 16, 2004. Rough animation was completed on June 25 of the same year.
The film is based on Diana Wynne Jones' novel "Howl's Moving Castle" (1986).
The original title of the film translates as "Howl's Moving Castle".
Before its national release in Japan, "Howl's Moving Castle" was shown at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in 2004. It was the first anime film ever to open the festival.
Christian Bale immediately agreed to voice any role in the English version of the film after watching "Spirited Away." He ultimately became the voice of Howl.
In Diana Wynne Jones' novel, the demon Calcifer is repeatedly noted to hum a song about a "little saucepan." This refers to the well-known Welsh folk song "Sosban Fach" ("Little Saucepan"), traditionally often performed at rugby matches. The chorus repeats the lines "Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tân/ Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr" ("Little saucepan is boiling on the fire, big saucepan is boiling in the hands").