Kiki's Delivery Service

Majo no takkyûbin

Japan

1989

103 Min

Color

1.85:1

Japanese

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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EXEC Morihisa Takagi, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Mikihiko Tsuzuki

SCR Hayao Miyazaki, Eiko Kadono

CAST Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawa, Kôichi Miura, Haruko Kato, Hiroko Seki, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kôichi Yamadera, Kikuko Inoue, Yûko Kobayashi, Mika Doi, Takaya Hashi, Chika Sakamoto, Toshiko Asai, Yoshiko Kamei, Hiroko Maruyama, Shinpachi Tsuji

ANIM Midori Chiba, Kazuo Ebisawa, Masaaki Endo, Atsuko Fukushima, Makiko Futaki, Yoshiyuki Hane, Akiko Hasegawa, Yuji Ikehata, Toshiyuki Inoue, Yutaka Itô, Megumi Kagawa, Yoshinori Kanada, Hidetoshi Kaneko, Kiyoko Kanno, Kenji Kashiyama, Toshio Kawaguchi, Kazuhiro Kinoshita, Katsuya Kondô, Yoshifumi Kondô, Miyuki Kudo, Satoshi Kuroda, Yuko Matsuura, Toshiharu Mizutani, Kôji Morimoto, Hiroyuki Morita, Noriko Moritomo, Kyouko Naganawa, Yoko Nagashima, Toshiya Niidome, Kazuo Oga, Kumiko Ohno, Kiyomi Ota, Shinji Otsuka, Yoshiharu Sato, Masahiro Sekino, Sachiko Sugino, Yasuko Tachiki, Hitomi Tateno, Ken Tokushige, Chie Uratani, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hirômi Yamakawa, Natsuyo Yasuda, Atsuko Ôtani

SOUND Naoko Asari, Shuji Inoue, Norio Kobayashi, Hironori Ono, Kazutoshi Satou, Shoichi Tamaasa, Fujio Yamada

Synopsis

Rarely does a film touch so many hearts or reach such artistic heights as the highly acclaimed Kiki’s Delivery Service, the magical adventure of an enterprising young girl who must follow tradition and become a full fledged witch. Venturing out, with only her chatty black cat Jiji, Kiki flies off for the adventure of a lifetime. Landing in a far off city, she sets up a high flying delivery service. Here begins a wonderful experience of independence and responsibility as she finds her place in the world. —Disney

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking animation in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan. The Walt Disney Company’s commitment to introduce the films to the rest of the world will let more people appreciate the high-quality works he has given the movie-going public.

Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tôkyô on January 5, 1941. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga studio, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible drawing ability and the seemingly endless stream of movie ideas he proposed.

In 1971, he moved to the A Pro studio with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, where he was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. In 1978, he directed… read more

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking animation in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan. The Walt Disney Company’s commitment to introduce the films to the rest of the world will let more people appreciate the high-quality works he has given the movie-going public.

Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tôkyô on January 5, 1941. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga studio, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible drawing ability and the seemingly endless stream of movie ideas he proposed.

In 1971, he moved to the A Pro studio with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, where he was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. In 1978, he directed his first TV series, “Future Boy Conan” (1978) (Conan, The Boy in Future), then moved to Tôkyô Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, the classic Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979). In 1984, he released Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), based on the manga (comic) of the same title he had started two years before. The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli (Sutajio Jiburi), at which Miyazaki has since directed, written, and produced many other films with Takahata and, more recently, Toshio Suzuki. All of these films enjoyed critical and box office successes. In particular, Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke (1997) received the Japanese equivalent of the Academy Award for Best Film and was the highest-grossing (about USD$150 million) domestic film in Japan’s history at the time of its release.

In addition to animation, Miyazaki also draws manga. His major work was the Nausicaä manga, an epic tale he worked on intermittently from 1982 to 1984 while he was busy making animated films. Another manga, Hikoutei Jidai, was later evolved into his 1992 film Porco Rosso (1992).

Miyazaki’s latest film is Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones. Even though he has said this would be at last film, a statement he has said before after the completion of some of his earlier films, one hopes that additions to his extraordinary body of work will continue to be produced as long as he remains alive. –IMDb

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