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Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)

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• Mamoru Hosoda was selected to direct the film but he abruptly left the project. Hayao Miyazaki then took up the director's role.
  
  
• The license number on the first car Sofie's mother rides is 667.
  
  
• The character Pazu, from Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky, can be seen running in front of the Wizard Jenkins' door.
  
  

• Upon seeing Spirited Away, Christian Bale immediately agreed to play any role in this film.
  
  
• Loosely based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
  
  
• Although the film was not released in the United Kingdom until 23 September 2005, director Hayao Miyazaki personally traveled to England in the summer of 2004 to give a private showing of the film to Diana Wynne Jones.
  
  
• Hayao Miyazaki and Lauren Bacall, both long-time fans of each other's work, met at a subtitled screening in New York. Reportedly, Bacall jokingly asked Miyazaki if he was married.
  
  

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