Howl's moving castle [videorecording] / Walt Disney Studios presents ; Studio Ghibli ; Tokuma Shoten/Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitshubishi, and Toho present ; screenplay written by Hayao Miyazaki ; production, Sutdio Ghibli ; producer, Toshio Suzuki ; director, Hayao Miyazaki.

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

ハウルの動く城 / Hauru no ugoku shiro.

[DVD].

Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2006]

2 videodiscs (ca. 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video Region 1

Motion picture

A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a contract, the terms of which Calcifer cannot reveal. They promise to help each other with their problems. Like Calcifer, Howl can also see through the Witch's spell, and he and Sophie fall in love. Sophie helps Howl confront his former teacher, and the Witch of the Waste.

MPAA rating: PG; for frightening images and brief mild language.

DVD, widescreen (1.85:1), region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

Voices (English): Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Lauren Bacall, Blythe Danner, Emily Mortimer, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal.

Director of photography, Atsuchi Okui ; art directors, Yôji Takeshige, Noboru Yoshida ; editor, Takeshi Seyama ; music, Joe Hisaishi ; key animators, Makiko Futaki ... [et al.].

U.S. production: producers, Rick Dempsey, Ned Lott ; directors, Peter Docter, Rick Dempsey ; English language adaptation, Cindy Davis Hewitt, Donald J. Hewitt.

In Japanese, dubbed English, or dubbed French with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

Witches -- Drama.

Wizards -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Animated films.

Steampunk films.

Fiction films.

Fantasy films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

DVDs.

Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941- film director.

Dempsey, Rick, film producer.

Docter, Pete.

Lott, Ned, film producer.

Suzuki, Toshio, 1948 August 19- film producer.

Bale, Christian, 1974- voice actor.

Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010, voice actor.

Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014 voice actor.

Danner, Blythe, voice actor.

Crystal, Billy, voice actor.

Mortimer, Emily, voice actor.

Hutcherson, Josh, voice actor.

Okui, Atsushi, cinematographer.

Hisaishi, Joe, composer.

Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl's moving castle.

Walt Disney Productions.

Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha.

Tokuma Shoten.

Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm)

Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

Based on the novel: Howl's moving castle / by Diana Wynne Jones.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004.

Special features (disc 1): behind the microphone; interview with Pete Docter; "Hello Mr. Lasseter: Hayao Miyazaki visits Pixar" featurette; TV spots and trailers (in Japanese, with optional English subtitles).

Special features (disc 2): storyboards (in English or Japanese, with optional English subtitles).

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