Baffling Japanese Anime

14 October - Took a while to stir this morning due to the hospitality of the previous night but eventually saw daylight and completed some errands before heading to Peckham Cinema with Michael, a probable rogue who is also staying in the house. The film we went to see was Howl's Moving Castle, a bizarro Japanese fantasy film that has been redubbed into English. I have to wonder if it lost anything in translation or, most probably, if the Japanese aren’t concerned with trifling things such as plot, continuity or whether a film makes a lick of sense at all. It was very beautiful to watch but I can't say it really did anything for me.