DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

ハウルの動く城 (Motion picture) / Hauru no ugoku shiro (Motion picture)

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

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 (9 min. voice actor featurette); Interview with Pete Docter (7 min.); Hello Mr. Lasseter: Hayao Miyazaki visits Pixar (16 min. featurette); TV spots and trailers (in Japanese, with optional English subtitles). (Disc 2): Storyboards (in English or Japanese, with optional English subtitles).

U.S. production: executive producer, John Lasseter ; producers, Rick Dempsey, Ned Lott ; directors, Pete Docter, Rick Dempsey ; English language adaptation, Cindy Davis Hewitt, Donald H. Hewitt ; translated from the original Japanese by Jim Hubbert.

Music by Joe Hisaishi ; theme song "Sekai no yakusoku", lyrics, Shuntaro Tanikawa, composition, Youmi Kimura, music arrangement, Joe Hisaishi, performance, Chieko Baisho ; supervising animators, Akihiko Yamashita, Takeshi Inamura, Kitaro Kosaka ; key animators, Makiko Futaki [and others] ; art directors, Yôji Takeshige, Noboru Yoshida ; editing, Takeshi Seyama ; director of photography, Atsuchi Okui.

Voices (English): Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Lauren Bacall, Blythe Danner, Emily Mortimer, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal, Jena Malone, Daijiro Harada, Crispin Freeman, Mark Silverman, Mari Devon, Liliana Mumy.

Voices (Japanese): Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashûin, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mitsunori Isaki, Yô Ôizumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Daijirô Harada, Haruko Katô.

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

DVD.

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital.

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

Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment, [2006]

[Burbank, Calif.] : Buena Vista Home Entertainment

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

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.

Witches -- Drama.

Wizards -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Magic -- Drama.

Young women -- Drama.

Witches -- Drama.

宮崎駿, 1941- film director, screenwriter. / Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941- film director, screenwriter.

鈴木敏夫, 1948 August 19- film producer. / Suzuki, Toshio, 1948 August 19- film producer. / Lasseter, John, film producer. / Dempsey, Rick, film producer, film director. / Lott, Ned, film producer. / Docter, Pete, film director. / Hewitt, Cindy Davis, screenwriter. / Hewitt, Donald H., screenwriter. / Hubbert, Jim, translator. / Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010, voice actor. / Bale, Christian, 1974- voice actor. / Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014, voice actor. / Danner, Blythe, voice actor. / Mortimer, Emily, voice actor. / Hutcherson, Josh, voice actor. / Crystal, Billy, voice actor. / Malone, Jena, 1984- voice actor. / Harada, Daijirô, 1944- voice actor. / Freeman, Crispin, 1972- voice actor. / Silverman, Mark, voice actor. / Devon, Mari, voice actor. / Mumy, Liliana, 1994- voice actor.

倍賞千恵子, voice actor, performer. / Baishō, Chieko, voice actor, performer.

木村拓哉, 1972- voice actor. / Kimura, Takuya, 1972- voice actor. / Miwa, Akihiro, 1935- voice actor.

我修院 達也, 1950- voice actor. / Gashūin, Tatsuya, 1950- voice actor.

神木 隆之介, 1993- voice actor. / Kamiki, Ryūnosuke, 1993- voice actor. / Isaki, Mitsunori, 1977- voice actor.

大泉洋, 1973- voice actor. / Ōizumi, Yō, 1973- voice actor. / Ōtsuka, Akio, 1959 November 24- voice actor.

加藤治子, 1922-2015, voice actor. / Katō, Haruko, 1922-2015, voice actor.

久石譲, composer (expression) / Hisaishi, Jō, 1950- composer (expression)

たにかわしゅんたろう, 1931- lyricist. / Tanikawa, Shuntarō, 1931- lyricist. / Kimura, Youmi, composer (expression) / Yamashita, Akihiko, animator. / Inamura, Takeshi, animator.

高坂希太郎, 1962- animator. / Kōsaka, Kitarō, 1962- animator.

二木真希子, animator. / Futaki, Makiko, animator.

武重洋二, 1964- art director. / Takeshige, Yōji, 1964- art director. / Yoshida, Norobu, art director.

瀬山武司, editor of moving image work. / Seyama, Takeshi, editor of moving image work.

奥井敦, director of photography. / Okui, Atsushi, director of photography. / Motion picture adaptation of (work): Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl's moving castle. / Walt Disney Productions, production company.

スタジオジブリ, production company. / Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.

徳間書店, production company. / Tokuma Shoten, production company.

日本テレビ, production company. / Nihon Terebi, production company.

日本電報通信社, production company. / Dentsū, production company.

三菱商事株式会社, production company. / Mitsubishi Shōji Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.

東宝株式会社, production company. / Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company. / Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm), production company. / Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm), production company, film distributor.

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