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Howl’s moving castle ( Japon 2004 )

Color: Animation, color, 119’

Direction: Hayao Miyazaki

Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki

Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui

Sound: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi – Nobue Yoshinaga

Music: Joe Hisaishi

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Cast: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura ,Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Haruko Kato, Yayoi Kazuki, Mayuno Yasokawa, Yô Öizumi

Production: Studio GHIBLI

Synopsis

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his moving castle.

Réalisateur

Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tôkyô on January 5, 1941. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio “Toei Douga” studio, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible drawing ability and the seemingly endless stream of movie ideas he proposed. in 1979 he directed his first movie, Arsène Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro. In 1984, he released Nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984), based on the manga (comic) of the same title he had started two years before. The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli, at which Miyazaki has since directed, written, and produced many other films with Isao Takahata and, more recently, Toshio Suzuki.