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- Nov 20, 200492% CONFIDENCEfrom myanimelist.net
Howl's Moving Castle Releases in Japanese Theaters
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- MyAnimeList8.67/10
- IMDb8.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes88%
- Metacritic82/100
Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle opens in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones's novel about a young hatmaker cursed into an old woman's body who takes refuge with a wizard in his walking castle.
- Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle released in Japanese theaters on 20 November 2004, running 1 hr 59 min, after premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2004[1]
- It is based on a novel; hatmaker's daughter Sophie Hatter is cursed by the Witch of the Waste into an old woman and travels with the wizard Howl in his living castle as war tears the kingdom apart[1]
- It is one of only three Ghibli films not released in July[1]
- It won the Osella for Technical Achievement at Venice, Best Japanese Movie at the Mainichi Film Awards, and Animation of the Year at the 2005 Tokyo International Anime Fair, and was nominated for the 78th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature[1]
- Disney Platform Distribution is the licensor; MyAnimeList shows a score of 8.67 and a rank of #81[1]
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- [1]92%Howl's Moving Castle Releases in Japanese Theatersmyanimelist.net· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Nov 20, 2004· 100% of score
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