![]() ![]() Miyazaki stated that he "had a great deal of rage about ," which led him to make a film which he felt would be poorly received in the US. The film is loosely based on the 1986 novel of the same name by British author Diana Wynne Jones. Influenced by Miyazaki's opposition to the United States' invasion of Iraq in 2003, Howl's Moving Castle contains strongly anti-war themes. It was produced by Toshio Suzuki, animated by Studio Ghibli and distributed by Toho. ![]() There’s no question of staying in the shop – her stepmother would have a fit – and she can’t face saying goodbye to a sister who wouldn’t recognise her, so she wraps herself in a shawl, collects her purse and shuffles off on an adventure she feels she hardly deserves.Howl's Moving Castle is an animation fantasy movie written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 2004. Judging that her leathery cheeks are a better reflection of her true nature than her former youthful appearance, she decides she must just make do. Sophie’s reaction is equally unexpected, and just as straightforwardly convincing. Hobbling over to the mirror, Sophie is unsurprised to discover a gaunt old woman, “withered and brownish, surrounded by wispy white hair”, with her own eyes staring out at her, “looking rather tragic”. Jones measures out the awful realisation over a page or so – the strange croak in Sophie’s voice, the look of horror from the man standing by the shop door, the large veins on the back of Sophie’s suddenly wrinkled hands. The spell is typically uncanny, arriving without warning in a flinging motion of a spread hand, transforming Sophie in an instant before she or the reader has any idea what has happened. Photograph: BuenaVist/Everett/Rex Features a still from the Studio Ghibli film adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle. ‘I’m dying of boredom,’ Howl said pathetically. ![]()
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