HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

If you're into anime films, you're probably familiar with Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese manga artist, film director and animator well-known for his works with Studio Ghibi. One of his anime feature films is the 2004 Hauru no Ugoku Shiro, which follows the adventure of an 18-years-old hat maker named Sophie, who is turned into a 90-year-old woman by a witch, and her search for a way to lift the curse. Hanuru no Ugoku Shiro became a box office in Japan and was nonimated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

The anime was loosely adapted from a teenage fantasy book by Diana Wynn Jones titled Howl's Moving Castle, first published in 1986. The book won a Boston-Horn Book Award.