Big Worlds On Small Screens Features Miyazaki — & Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Howl’s Moving Castle”

~ by Rebecca Fisher

Introduction:

A humorous British author and a saturnine Japanese director may seem like a bizarre combination, but they are the creative team that lies behind Howl’s Moving Castle. Diana Wynne Jones’s book was inspired by a host of fairy tales, her own immobility after an operation, and a young school boy’s suggestion that she write a story about a moving castle. Filled with inventive charm and subversive twists on familiar fairy tales, the book is surprisingly complex, with...