Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- witch
- flying
- rain
- castle
- scarecrow
- body exchange
- melancholy
- hatter
- bakery
- curse
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Chieko Baisho
Sophie (voice)
Takuya Kimura
Howl (voice)
Akihiro Miwa
Witch of the Waste (voice)
Tatsuya Gashuin
Calcifer (voice)
- Ryunosuke Kamiki — Markl (voice)
- Mitsunori Isaki — Kosho (voice)
- Yo Oizumi — Prince Justin / Turnip Head (voice)
- Akio Otsuka — King of Ingary (voice)
- Daijirō Harada — Heen (voice)
- Haruko Katō — Madame Suliman (voice)
- Makoto Yasumura — (voice)
- Manabu Muraji — (voice)
- Keiko Tsukamoto — (voice)
- Tsuzuki Kayako — (voice)
- Seiji Sasaki — (voice)
- Directed
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Written
- Hayao Miyazaki
Production
- Rating
- 8.4 / 10 · 11,394 ratings
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli, Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network Corporation, dentsu, Walt Disney Japan, d-rights
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
