It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name (translated in Japan as The. It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2004, and premiered in Toho cinemas in Japan on November 20, 2004. Voices include Jean Simmons (Grandma Sophie), Christian Bale (Howl), Lauren Bacall (Witch of the Waste), Blythe Danner (Madame Suliman), Emily Mortimer (Young Sophie), Josh Hutcherson (Markl), Billy Crystal (Calcifer). Howl's Moving Castle (, Howl no Ugoku Shiro) is an animated fantasy film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Toshio Suzuki and animated by Studio Ghibli. production directed by Pete Docter and Rick Dempsey. Howls Moving Castle is a Studio Ghibli animation, released in 2004 and based on the book of the same name by British author Dianna Wynne Jones. Original release in Japan on November 20, 2004, after a showing in September at the Venice Film Festival. This is one of the funniest anime movies I have seen in my preference.

Limited release on June 10, 2005, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in other selected cities general release on June 17, 2005. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon, who is under contract to Howl, and she helps him break the contract so Calcifer can help her return to her original shape.

But Howl himself has been cursed by the Witch, and is looking for the love of a young girl to help him break the curse. Sophie Hatter, an 18-year-old girl, seems doomed to the life of a hatmaker, but when she is cursed by the Witch of the Waste with the body of a 90-year-old woman, she goes to the moving castle of the wizard Howl, who is supposed to have eaten the souls of young girls. Howl’s Moving Castle Animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and distributed in the United States by Disney.

Howls moving castle movie