Howl's Moving Castle

Sep 9, 2004

1h 59m

★ 8.4

The two lived there.

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.

Genres

Fantasy

Animation

Adventure

Production Companies

Studio Ghibli

Tokuma Shoten

Nippon Television Network Corporation

dentsu

Walt Disney Japan

d-rights

TOHO

Howl's Moving Castle Trailers

Cast

Sophie (voice)

Chieko Baisho

Howl (voice)

Takuya Kimura

Witch of the Waste (voice)

Akihiro Miwa

Calcifer (voice)

Tatsuya Gashuin

Markl (voice)

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Kosho (voice)

Mitsunori Isaki

Prince Justin / Turnip Head (voice)

Yo Oizumi

King of Ingary (voice)

Akio Otsuka

Heen (voice)

Daijirō Harada

Madame Suliman (voice)

Haruko Katō

(voice)

Makoto Yasumura

(voice)

Manabu Muraji

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