“Howl’s Moving Castle” is a stunning film with gorgeous animation and a recognizable, sweeping score. However, the film disappoints in its writing, despite creating lovable and multi-faceted ...

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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 working 14 ...

Studio Ghibli‘s Howl’s Moving Castle is an exquisitely beautiful fairy tale romance that rebelliously rewrites the rules of its very genre. Instead of giving us a heroine canonized by her kindness, ...

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 straightforward: ...

Mysterious curses, duelling magicians, an empowered young female lead: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, first published in the U.S. in 1986, has all the elements of a classic young adult ...

After each new film he makes, Hayao Miyazaki says it will be his last. That's because the 64-year-old filmmaker still draws some of his own animation and his vision has been getting progressively ...