Other title: Hauru no ugoku shiro
Producer: Hayao Miyazaki
Official website:Â http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/castle/
Genre: Magic, Fantasy, Mystery
Length: ~ 2:30 hours, feels like to short when you watches it
We didn’t even had a break in the movies, well I’m happy I didn’t need to go ..
What’s all about?
How’s moving castle is a great anime about a women named Sophie. She lives in a quiet neigbourhood as an hatter. It’s a fine job though she does it only since it’s her mothers store. The movie starts when Howl comes to this city, he meets Sophie in an alley where two stubborn soldiers is making fun of her. Howl helps her out but he has been followed by creatures from the witch of the waste. The witch is a mighty person and feared by everyone, despite she’s a nightmare for everyone it seems she has a crush on Howl.
When the witch enters Sophie’s store after curfew she’s is nicely informed by that the store is closed. Though the witch is not willing and a bit surprised she dares to face her. Sophie even get’s mad and points her the way out.
The with looks like she holds her tempered but then she suddenly curses poor Sophie. The spell will make Sophie as old as she thinks she is, instantly a 90 year old women. She’s a granny now! What now? She can’t stay home, no one can see her like this. So she left the town to live on her own and finds Howl.
Howl self is a deserted and fleeing magician. As Howl says, he’s more a coward than a great mage (still he is), strugling to survive without a real purpose. Lucky for Sophie he’s very friendly and she may stay as a housekeeper.
