Howl's Moving Castle
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- Synopsis
- Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animation director who wowed audiences worldwide with his award-winning film Spirited Away, brings another visually spectacular tale of imagination to the screen....
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- Director(s)
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Distributor(s)
- Buena Vista
- MPAA Rating
- PG
- Runtime
- 119 min.
Critic Reviews
Parse it any way you like, Miyazaki's gifts as an animator place him in a category of his own. To see his latest film is to be somehow reminded of Italians who could hear Verdi's operas as soon as they were sung or English readers who could experience the novels of Dickens episode by episode.Read the full review
The worldview, the sense of childlike fun shaded with adult melancholy, and the joyful, serene attention to visual oddity and wordless beauty could only be made in Japan. And, specifically, made by Hayao Miyazaki.Read the full review
Sophie, in both her incarnations, joins an impressive sisterhood of Miyazaki heroines, whose version of girl power presents a potent alternative to the mini-machismo that dominates American juvenile entertainment. Not that children are the only viewers likely to be haunted and beguiled by Howl's Moving Castle - all that is needed are open eyes and an open heart.Read the full review
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Headlines
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400 Screens 400 Blows - Hello Ponyo, Hello
10/03/09 Yet Ponyo hasn't exactly been lighting its United States audience on fire. | Cinematical.com -
Disney hopes Miyazaki's 'Ponyo' makes splash
08/12/09 Director Hayao Miyazaki is considered a master of animation in his native Japan, and when Disney releases his latest movie "Ponyo" on Friday, the studio hopes to score with an entirely different audience: mainstream U.S. movie fans. | The Hollywood Reporter -
Capone chats with UP director Pete Docter about balloons, exotic creatures, and turning an elderly man into an action star!!!
05/26/09 Some of my favorite folks in the movie world to interview or even just chat with are the men and women who work for Pixar, for the plain and simple reason that they tell the best stories about what went into creating every aspect of their films. | Ain't It Cool News -
English Cast For Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo
11/26/08 GhibliWorld reports that Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy will produce the English locational of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, with a cast that includes Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Betty White, Fankie Jonas, Noah Cyrys and Cloris Leachman. | Ain't It Cool News -
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo)
08/31/08 Hayao Miyazaki's latest animated epic, "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea," unfolds with a magic limpidity, teeming with imaginative transports that owe nothing to CGI. | Variety
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