Howl's Moving Castle - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "Howl's Moving Castle"
ハウルの動く城 (2004)
Timing:
1:59 (119 min)
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Actors and characters
Tatsuya Gashûin
Character Calcifer (voice)
Mitsunori Isaki
Character Kosho (voice)
Yo Oizumi
Character Prince Justin / Turnip Head (voice)
Daijirô Harada
Character Heen (voice)
Makoto Yasumura
Character (voice)
Manabu Muraji
Character (voice)
Keiko Tsukamoto
Character (voice)
Yayoi Kazuki
Character (voice)
Hiroshi Takahashi
Character (voice)
Mayuno Yasokawa
Character (voice)
Akiyoshi Sakurai
Character (voice)
Momoko Kurita
Character (voice)
Yasuhiro Ohara
Character (voice)
Akio Tanaka
Character (voice)
Rina Yamada
Character (voice)
Naoto Kaji
Character (voice)
Shinobu Katabuchi
Character (voice)
Masako Inui
Character (voice)
Yohei Ohbayashi
Character (voice)
Takeshi Miyajima
Character (voice)
Yukiko Mizuochi
Character (voice)
Maki Koizumi
Character (voice)
Nobito Nishioka
Character (voice)
Teppei Akashi
Character (voice)
Reiko Onishi
Character (voice)
Yumiko Ogata
Character (voice)
Hiroyuki Kamikawaji
Character (voice)
Tomohiko Kiyota
Character (voice)
Kaori Kaneko
Character (voice)
Aiko Nakajima
Character (voice)
Jun Kuwahara
Character (voice)
Yuta Kobayashi
Character (voice)
Yuko Nomura
Character (voice)
Tamayo Fukushi
Character (voice)
Atsushi Takeya
Character (voice)
Yoshifumi Nakagawa
Character (voice)
Yohei Matsukado
Character (voice)
Akane Fujisaki
Character (voice)
Izumi Matsuoka
Character (voice)
Tomonori Yanagibashi
Character (voice)
Ken Yasuda
Character (voice)
Hiroyuki Morisaki
Character (voice)
Shigeyuki Totsugi
Character (voice)
Takuma Otoo
Character (voice)
What's left behind the scenes
- The animated film is based on Diana Wynne Jones's novel *Howl's Moving Castle* (1986).
- The original title of the animated film translates as *Howl's Moving Castle*.
- Before filming began, the art team traveled through Europe in search of suitable landscapes for the film. They found them in the eastern province of Alsace, France.
- According to director Hayao Miyazaki, the prototype for the moving castle was the hut on chicken legs from Russian folk tales.
- Mamoru Hosoda was originally supposed to direct the film.
- Before its national release in Japan, *Howl's Moving Castle* was shown at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in 2004. It was the first anime film ever to open the festival.
- Hayao Miyazaki called this film the first anime for adults.
- Christian Bale immediately agreed to voice any role in the English version of the animated film after watching *Spirited Away*. He ultimately became the voice of Howl.
- Hayao Miyazaki and Lauren Bacall, being long-time fans of each other's work, first met at a subtitled screening of the film in New York. Bacall reportedly jokingly asked Miyazaki if he was married.
- In Diana Wynne Jones’s novel, the demon Calcifer is repeatedly noted to whistle to himself a song about a “little pot.” This refers to the well-known Welsh folk song “Sosban Fach” (“Little Pot”), traditionally often performed at rugby matches. The chorus repeats the words “Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tân/ Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr” (“Little pot boils on the fire, big pot boils on the floor”).
- The film was created on a computer, but the backgrounds and characters were drawn by hand and then digitized. The storyboard consisted of 1400 scenes and was completed on January 16, 2004. Rough animation was completed on June 25 of the same year.
- The film is based on Diana Wynne Jones' novel "Howl's Moving Castle" (1986).
- The original title of the film translates as "Howl's Moving Castle".
- Before its national release in Japan, "Howl's Moving Castle" was shown at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in 2004. It was the first anime film ever to open the festival.
- Christian Bale immediately agreed to voice any role in the English version of the film after watching "Spirited Away." He ultimately became the voice of Howl.
- In Diana Wynne Jones' novel, the demon Calcifer is repeatedly noted to hum a song about a "little saucepan." This refers to the well-known Welsh folk song "Sosban Fach" ("Little Saucepan"), traditionally often performed at rugby matches. The chorus repeats the lines "Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tân/ Sosban fawr yn berwi ar y llawr" ("Little saucepan is boiling on the fire, big saucepan is boiling in the hands").
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