2/22/2012 - Video
so, last saturday I accidentally watched this movie in Disney Channel (random banget kan ginian ada di Disney Channel, orang abis nonton Phineas and Ferb) and I think it’s pretty damn good!
Howl’s Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城 Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) is a 2004 Japanese animated (anime) fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazakiof Studio Ghibli and based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones.
The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2004 and was released in Japanese theaters on November 20, 2004. It went on to gross $231.7 million worldwide,making it one of the most financially successful Japanese films in history.
The film was subsequently dubbed into English by Pixar’s Peter Docter and distributed in North America by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006.
Wynne Jones’s novel allows Miyazaki to combine a plucky young woman and a mother figure into a single character in the heroine, Sophie. She starts out as an 18-year-old hat maker, but then a witch’s curse transforms her into a 90-year-old gray haired woman. Sophie is horrified by the change at first. Nevertheless she learns to embrace it as a liberation from anxiety, fear and self-consciousness. The change might be a blessed chance for adventure.
I personally love the quirkiness of this movie!
