Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle is an other Hayao Miyazaki's nominated film for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature!
Here we could enjoy the full-color manga adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle. No matter you wanna review the lovely film in picture books or just read the book first, it is totally worth it! Let's set out the journey to break the curse of Shopie and live in a amazing Moving Castle!
More Story Details: Howl's Moving Castle is a animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The film is loosely based on the 1986 novel of the same name by British author Diana Wynne Jones. But it thematically significantly different from the book; while the book focuses on challenging class and gender norms, the film focuses on love, and personal loyalty and the destructive effects of war.
It follows Sophie, a plain young milliner who have three little sisters. She expects to spend the rest of her life quietly making hats in the back room of her family's shop, but as her country prepares for war, she is forced to set out on an extraordinary adventure!
After a escaping the unwanted attentions of some bored soldiers with the help of a handsome stranger, Sophie returns home only to be accosted by the infamous Witch of the Waste! The Witch lays a curse on her, turning Sophie into a creaky old woman. Sophie knows she has to leave town, and soon finds herself taking shelter in the moving castle of the dread wizard Howl…who is rumored to eat women's hearts!
