Howl's moving castle

Resource Information

The work Howl's moving castle represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Oshkosh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Howl's moving castle

Statement of responsibility

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

Contributor

• Bale, Christian, 1974-
• Nihon Terebi
• Mitsubishi Shōji Kabushiki Kaisha
• Crystal, Billy
• Danner, Blythe
• Dentsū
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Dempsey, Rick
• Docter, Pete
• Hisaishi, Jō, 1950-
• Hutcherson, Josh
• Jones, Diana Wynne
• Lott, Ned
• Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941-
• Mortimer, Emily
• Okui, Atsushi
• Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010
• Tokuma Shoten
• Suzuki, Toshio, 1948 August 19-
• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
• Walt Disney Productions
• Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014
• Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha

Cinematographer

• Okui, Atsushi

Director

• Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941-

Producer

• Dempsey, Rick
• Lott, Ned

Voice actor

• Bale, Christian, 1974-
• Hutcherson, Josh
• Danner, Blythe
• Crystal, Billy
• Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014
• Mortimer, Emily

Subject

• Young women
• Animated films
• Animated films -- Japan
• Fantasy films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Japanese language films
• Magic
• Man-woman relationships
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Witches
• Wizards

Genre

• Fantasy films
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Animated films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations

Language

• jpn
• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• jpn
• eng

Summary

Sophie, who helps out at her late father's hat shop, is transformed one day by a witch into an old woman. Sophie seeks out the help of the wizard Howl, who has an amazing moving castle which is fueled by a fire demon named Calcifer

Member of

• Hauru no ugoku shiro (Motion picture)

Cataloging source

HHO

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

• 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, [et al.] ; art directors, Yôji Takeshige, Noboru Yoshida ; editing, Takeshi Seyama ; director of photography, Atsuchi Okui

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

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

Language note

Japanese, dubbed English, or dubbed French dialogue; English or French subtitles; English subtitles for the hard of hearing (SDH)

LC call number

PN1997.5

LC item number

.H695 2013

PerformerNote

Blythe Danner, Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall, Billy Crystal, Christian Bale, Josh Hutcherson, Emily Mortimer

Runtime

119

Target audience

general

Technique

animation