Howl’s Moving Castle is one of Studio Ghibli’s most ... making her passive and resigned to working in her family’s hat shop. In the film, however, Sophie’s mindset and lack of confidence ...

Something I have always adored about Howl’s Moving Castle is that it’s very wholesome about the type of story it’s trying to portray, and themes of which it tells as the tale progresses.

Studio Ghibli released “Howl’s Moving Castle” in Japan on Nov. 20, 2004, and its thoughtful consideration of age and war remains pertinent even today. The film, based on the novel of the same name, ...

Before the initial release of “Howl’s Moving Castle” 20 years ago, Akihiko Yamashita spent nearly two years working as the supervising animator on the Studio Ghibli film. Yamashita recalls ...

I think we can all agree that there’s nothing quite like watching a Studio Ghibli movie for the first time – especially one that was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki’s works ...

Ghibli Fest is bringing Howl’s Moving Castle back to theaters, which means it’s time to revisit one of the movie’s great little visual puzzles. The story of the film is relatively ...

In the background, we can see supporting characters like Markl and Turnip-Head. Howl’s Moving Castle came out in 2004 and loosely takes inspiration from Diana Wynne Jones’s 1986 novel of the ...

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of “Howl’s Moving Castle,” now playing in theaters until Oct. 3 as part of Ghibli Fest, Yamashita spoke with Variety via an interpreter about his ...