Howl's Moving Castle
“The two lived there.”
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
Genres
Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Studio
Studio Ghibli
Language
ja
Status
Released
How Howl's Moving Castle performed
Budget
$24.0M
Worldwide Gross
$236.0M
Gross Profit
$212.0M
Return
9.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$26M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~32/68, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Fantasy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Sophie (voice)
Chieko Baisho
Sophie (voice)
Howl (voice)
Takuya Kimura
Howl (voice)
Witch of the Waste (voice)
Akihiro Miwa
Witch of the Waste (voice)
Calcifer (voice)
Tatsuya Gashuin
Calcifer (voice)
Markl (voice)
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Markl (voice)
Kosho (voice)
Mitsunori Isaki
Kosho (voice)
Prince Justin / Turnip Head (voice)
Yo Oizumi
Prince Justin / Turnip Head (voice)
King of Ingary (voice)
Akio Otsuka
King of Ingary (voice)
Heen (voice)
Daijirō Harada
Heen (voice)
Madame Suliman (voice)
Haruko Katō
Madame Suliman (voice)
(voice)
Makoto Yasumura
(voice)
(voice)
Manabu Muraji
(voice)
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