Howl's moving castle

Movie name : Howl's moving castle
Country: Japan
Year : 2004
Genre : Fantasy, Animation, adventure, family
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
IMDB rating: 8.2
Personal rating: 10/10

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Sophie lives in a small town and is a hobbyist hat maker. After the day's work she was going to meet her younger sister Letty. But on the way, she fall under the grip of villains, and there appears Howl, who is a famous wizard. Howl rescues Sophie from the two villains and flies her to her sister. Sophie finally returns home in the evening after meeting her sister. But then a witch named Witch of the Waste appeared in her shop. He transforms Sophie into an old woman of about ninety. In fear, she does not show her face to anyone. But she became desperate, to break this curse on her and the very next day she went out without telling anyone.

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Walking on the mountain path, Sophie gets tired and thinks that a stick wouldn't be so bad. She sees something like a broken branch. Take out the branch with great difficulty, but one!!
Here is a scarecrow that jumps alone!!!!
Sophie named it turnip head because the head of that scarecrow is a bit like a turnip
With the help of the scarecrow, Sophie finds refuge in Howl's famous moving castle.
There he meets Howl's apprentice Markle and a fire-demon Calcifer. Howl wasn't at Castle then, of course.
Sophie makes a deal with Calcifer that.....(there will be so much spoiler)

Meanwhile, in the city where Sophie lived, the prince of another kingdom has been missing for some time. The king declared war to recover his lost child and sent a letter to all wizards in the land, including Howl, to participate in the war.
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Now let's give a little idea about howl's moving castle.
It doesn't look like a Castle at any angle. The main door of the castle is linked with several places. That is, if you turn the dial, you can go to one city, and if you turn it again, you can exit to another city. (Remember the movie Doctor Strange, It fell while watching this scene) If you rotate it once more, you can go to where the castle is.
Howl himself made this arrangement so that he could go by both of his aliases.
And there is another dial in black color which is used only by Howl, no one else is allowed to use it.
Pretty weird!!!
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When Howl returns to the castle he learns all about the letter the king sent. Suddenly he sees old Sophie, but does not recognize her.
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Howl has always been against war; So many wars for the missing prince, can Howl stop the war?

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Howl didn't recognize Sophie today, but will he ever recognize Sophie later?
What is the real secret of the strange turnip head?

Calcifer made a deal with Sophie?

What is the secret of Howl's moving castle? How to walk alone in a strange looking house?

And the million dollar question..... Sophie met Howl, will she ever be able to overcome this curse? Or face another reality of Howl?

Who/what is Howl?

If you want to know that, watch the gibli movie..

Howl is voiced by Christian Bale

(For DC fan) This is the Christian Bale who was seen as Batman in the dark knight series

The anime received an Oscar nomination in the best animation category. But eventually lost to Wallace & Gromit: Curse of were-rabbit. Although I didn't really like the Wallace & Gromit movie, that's just my personal opinion.

The anime is directed by one of my favorite directors, Hayao Miyazaki (director of Spirited away). Spirited away is my favorite movie, followed by Howls moving castle. And a track named "Merry go round" has been used as the background music of the movie. I do not know who composed this background music; But I still hum the music occasionally. I like the music.

Every scene in this movie has mystery, as well as the strange chemistry between a wizard and a very ordinary girl.

Hope, you will like the movie .
Happy watching .