Howl's Moving Castle - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  Three scenes show characters kissing.

  Two soldiers corner a girl and hint at intentions to sexually harass her, but they are interrupted and stopped.

  A young man is seen in a towel. Later in that scene, the towel is dropped, but no full frontal nudity is seen, only his butt is visible very briefly, it is very hard to notice.

• Violence

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  Contains scenes of infrequent mild violence and scary scenes.

• Profanity

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  Contains religious swearing in the English version.

  Mild language. In the English version, there is a single usage of "ship", but if one doesn't listen closely, it might sound like the word is "S**t". In the original Japanese version, one use of "damn" is present.

• Intense Scenes

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  A room that is lit begins to become dark, and is bordered with what looks like dark shadows of spirits. A young man is seen melting from his human form into a pile of green slime.

  In an illusion, a room is suddenly filled with water. The characters are then seen floating in a sky, and tiny blue human-like spirits (with no faces) hold hands and dance around the characters. Then, one of the human characters is seen being transformed into a bird, not of his will, and slightly agonizes over the transformation. He then leaps up grabbing the other characters with him and breaks out of a window.

  A ship is seen with flames coming out, and is presumed to have been shot down. Men jump into the harbor to escape the flames. Then, in the harbor, a few bombs fall out of the sky into the water. People run in a panic, but nobody is seen harmed.

  A few scenes are shown where a creature with a human head fights off creatures who're flying. Towns are seen on fire.

  There's one scene of missiles hitting the ground and destroying a house.