Howl's Moving Castle (2004) [PG]

Release Date:
September 9, 2004

Original Title:
ハウルの動く城

Alternate Titles:
Det levende slottet
El Increíble Castillo Vagabundo
Ghaleh Motahareke Howl
Ghaleye Motahareke Howl
Haulov pokretni zamak
Hauru no Ugoku Shiro
Howl no Ugoku Shiro
Howl'un Yürüyen Şatosu
Howls bewegende Kasteel
Howlův kráčející hrad
Le Chateau Ambulant
Yeriyən Şato
Замок-мандрівник
Подвижният замък на Хол
Шагающий замок Хаула
הטירה הנעה
قلعه‌ی متحرک هاول
قلعۀ متحرک هاول
ハウルの動く城
哈尔的移动城堡
哈爾移動城堡
하울의 움직이는 성

Genres:
Adventure | Animation | Fantasy

Production Companies:
Mitsubishi
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Studio Ghibli
TFC
Tokuma Shoten
d-rights
dentsu Music And Entertainment

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  BR: L  CH: 12  CZ: U  DE: 6  DK: 7  ES: 7  FR: TP  GB: U  HU: 12  IE: G  IT: T  KR: All  MX: A  NL: 6  NO: 6  NZ: PG  PL: 12  PT: M/6  RU: 6+  SE: 7  TW: 0+  US: PG 

Runtime: 119

The two lived there.

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.

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Animation:
Makiko Futaki
Kaori Fujii
Akihiko Adachi
Seiko Azuma
Rie Usui
Kaori Tokunaga
Alexandra Weihrauch
Ayako Mori
Ayano Suzuki
Hisako Yaji
Kiyoko Makita
Kumiko Ohta
Hiroaki Nakajima
Kaori Itou
Kimitoshi Ueno
Kumiko Tanihira
Atsuko Matsushita
Emiko Iwayanagi
Fumie Konno
Jinko Tsuji
Keisuke Shimohira
Makoto Oohara
Sumie Nishido
Yasuyuki Kitazawa
Moyo Takahashi
Akira Hosogaya
Masakiyo Yamashita
Saho Saito
Yukie Kaneko
Masashi Karino
Shinichiro Yamada
Waka Hirota
Yumiko Suehiro
Setsuya Tanabe
Akiko Toba
Masako Sato
Maya Fujimori
Tomoko Miyata
Mayumi Kitamura
Takeshi Hiramatsu
Tsutomu Kaichi
Yoshie Hayashi
Yuko Sasaki
Rie Kondou
Yoyoi Toki
Yukiko Kakinuma
Kumiko Terada
Mai Nakazato
Masami Nakanishi
Mitsu Noguchi
Yukari Yamaura
Tetsuaki Matsuda
Akiko Teshima
Daisuke Makino
Katsutoshi Nakamura
Rie Yamamoto
Sumie Iwata
Chikako Sasagawa
Yukari Umebayashi
Yukinobu Yamada
Masayuki Shimizu
Shunsuke Hirota
Osamu Miwa
Tsutomu Shibutani
Yumiko Kitajima
Keiko Tomizawa
Yōhei Nakano
Yuuko Fujita
Kunitoshi Ishii
Mayumi Ohmura
Minoru Ohashi
Takahiro Sugawara

Animation Director:
Kitarou Kousaka

Animation Manager:
Yoshitake Iwakami

Animation Supervisor:
Katsuya Kondo

Art Direction:
Noboru Yoshida
Yoji Takeshige

Assistant Director:
Ryosuke Kiyokawa
Yosuke Toba

Assistant Editor:
Kashiko Kimura
Megumi Uchida
Rie Matsubara

Background Designer:
Junichi Taniguchi
Masahiro Kubota
Yoichi Nishikawa
Masatoshi Kai
Sayaka Hirahara
Naoya Tanaka
Yoshikazu Fukutome
Keiko Itogawa
Mitsuo Yoshino
Naomi Kasugai
Osamu Masuyama
Ryouko Ina
Junko Ina
Kazuo Oga
Masako Osada

Casting Coordinator:
Motohiro Hatanaka
Ayumi Sato
Naomi Yasu

Color Designer:
Michiyo Yasuda

Color Timer:
Hiroaki Hirabayashi

Director:
Hayao Miyazaki

Director of Photography:
Atsushi Okui

Dolby Consultant:
Mikio Mori

Editor:
Takeshi Seyama

Executive Producer:
Hayao Miyazaki

Foley Artist:
Akihiko Okase
Mizuki Ito
Yukio Hokari
Masaya Kitada

Information Systems Manager:
Satomi Sasaki
Noriyuki Kitakawachi

Key Animation:
Atsushi Tamura
Takashi Hashimoto
Yoshihiro Osugi
Katsuya Kondo
Makiko Futaki
Hirofumi Masuda
Makiko Suzuki
Atsushi Shigeta
Eiji Yamamori
Megumi Kagawa
Mariko Matsuo
Masashi Okumura
Norihiro Ôsugi
Toshihiko Masuda
Kenichi Yamada
Hiroshi Masuda
Shinya Ohira
Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Yuichi Tanaka
Atsuko Tanaka
Kenichi Konishi
Shigeru Kimishima
Tsutomu Kurita
Shinji Otsuka
Hideki Hamasu
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Masaru Matsuse
Kazuyoshi Onoda
Masako Shinohara
Kenji Hachizaki
Masafumi Yokota
Hideaki Yoshio
Hiroomi Yamakawa
Katsuya Yamada
Kenji Yazaki
Sachiko Sugino

Novel:
Diana Wynne Jones

Original Music Composer:
Joe Hisaishi

Painter:
Hiroshi Iijima

Producer:
Tomohiko Ishii
Toshio Suzuki

Production Accountant:
Eiko Fujitsu
Kiyoko Tsuge
Tamami Yamamoto
Sueko Numazawa
Hisayo Itou
Masako Fujita
Akio Ichimura

Production Assistant:
Eiichiro Tashiro
Kenji Imura
Kyohei Ito
Junya Saito

Production Manager:
Nozomu Takahashi

Public Relations:
Junichi Nishioka
Yumiko Ukai
Chieko Tamura
Nozomu Ito
Chihiro Tsukue

Screenplay:
Hayao Miyazaki

Songs:
Youmi Kimura

Sound:
Shuji Inoue

Sound Director:
Kazuhiro Wakabayashi

Sound Effects:
Toru Noguchi

Sound Recordist:
Naoto Takeshima
Yuuichi Kaneko
Suminobu Hamada
Mari Shinohara

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