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

Animation Director:
Kitaro Kosaka

Animation Manager:
Yoshitake Iwakami

Animation Supervisor:
Katsuya Kondo

Art Direction:
Yoji Takeshige
Noboru Yoshida

Assistant Director:
Yosuke Toba
Ryosuke Kiyokawa

Assistant Editor:
Rie Matsubara
Megumi Uchida
Kashiko Kimura

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

Casting Coordinator:
Ayumi Sato
Motohiro Hatanaka
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:
Yukio Hokari
Mizuki Ito
Masaya Kitada
Akihiko Okase

Information Systems Manager:
Noriyuki Kitakawachi
Satomi Sasaki

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

Novel:
Diana Wynne Jones

Original Music Composer:
Joe Hisaishi

Painter:
Hiroshi Iijima

Producer:
Tomohiko Ishii
Toshio Suzuki

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

Production Assistant:
Kyohei Ito
Kenji Imura
Junya Saito
Eiichiro Tashiro

Production Manager:
Nozomu Takahashi

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

Screenplay:
Hayao Miyazaki

Songs:
Youmi Kimura

Sound:
Shuji Inoue

Sound Director:
Kazuhiro Wakabayashi

Sound Effects:
Toru Noguchi

Sound Recordist:
Yuuichi Kaneko
Suminobu Hamada
Naoto Takeshima
Mari Shinohara

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