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Howl's Moving Castle(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

Howl's Moving Castle

A young milliner cursed into an old woman's body must infiltrate a wandering wizard's enchanted castle and break the spell before a looming war consumes her homeland.

“The two lived there.”

Directed by
Hayao Miyazaki
Written by
Diana Wynne Jones, Hayao Miyazaki
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
119 min
Language
JA
AdventureAnimationFamily

Synopsis

Sophie, a young milliner, is transformed into an elderly woman by a witch who visits her shop and casts a curse upon her. She later meets a wizard named Howl and becomes involved in his efforts to avoid being conscripted into the king's war.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 66+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Takeshi SeyamaShot by Atsushi OkuiScored by Joe Hisaishi

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$236.0M

Budget$24.0M
Worldwide gross$236.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.7M — 2% of worldwide · International: $231.3M (98%)

Re-release box office

20241,592 theaters
$4.5M($4.7M today)
2022868 theaters
$1.2M($1.4M today)
2019748 theaters
$1.2M($1.6M today)
Total re-release
$6.9M

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Das wandelnde Schlossde
  • Das wandelnde Schloßde
  • Hauru no Ugoku Shirode
  • Howl's Moving Caslteen
  • Howl's Moving Castleen
  • Howl no Ugoku Shiroes
  • Le Château ambulantfr
  • Il castello errante di Howlit
  • ハウルの動く城ja

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