Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl's Moving Castle is more than a simple love story. It's a fantasy about a girl named Sophie who turns into a 90-year-old woman due to a curse from the Witch of the Waste. Having no choice but to leave her home and hide her frightening condition from her family, Sophie takes refuge in a moving castle that belongs to a notorious wizard named Howl.
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