She also meets Howl's apprentice, a young boy named Markl (Ryunosuke Kamiki). An animate scarecrow she calls 'Turnip Head' leads her to Howl's eponymous castle, where she makes a deal with fire demon/Ifrit Calcifer (Tatsuya Gashuin) to break each other's curses under the guise of becoming Howl's cleaning lady.

Though rather accepting of her new age, which Sophie finds to fit her personality better, she still sets out to find Howl and break the spell. After an encounter with the wizard Howl (Takuya Kimura), she attracts the attention of the petty Witch of the Waste (Akihiro Miwa), who lays a curse on Sophie, abruptly making her physically 90 years old. The story starts roughly the same way as the book – During a fantasy equivalent version of World War I, a young woman by the name of Sophie (Chieko Baisho) works as a hatter and deals with massive insecurity problems. Now, instead of a Medieval European Fantasy, the land of Ingary is a Steampunk/ Gaslamp Fantasy world filled with both technology and magic. It was directed by Hayao Miyazaki and made at Studio Ghibli, which accounts for the many lovely visuals in the movie. Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城 Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) is a 2004 Animated Adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle.

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