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Majo no takkyûbin (1989) -- A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Eiko Kadono (original book)
Hayao Miyazaki (screenplay)
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Release Date:
29 July 1989 (Japan) more
Plot:
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Minami Takayama ... Kiki / Ursula (voice)
Rei Sakuma ... Jiji (voice)
Kappei Yamaguchi ... Tombo (voice)
Keiko Toda ... Osono (voice)
Mieko Nobusawa ... Kokiri, Kiki no haha (Kiki's mummy) (voice)
Kôichi Miura ... Okino, Kiki no chichi (Kiki's daddy) (voice)
Haruko Kato ... Rô-fujin (Madame) (voice)
Hiroko Seki ... Barsa (Bertha) (voice)
Yuriko Fuchizaki ... Ketto (voice)
Kôichi Yamadera ... Bakery worker, policeman (voice)
Kikuko Inoue ... Beautiful designer girl (voice)
Yûko Kobayashi ... Young sempai witch (voice)
Mika Doi ... Ketto's mother (voice)
Takaya Hashi ... Ketto's father (voice)
Chika Sakamoto ... Baby (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Kiki's Delivery Service (UK) (USA)
The Witch's Express Mail (literal title)
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Runtime:
103 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The four-engined biplane (more precisely, sesquiplane) that Kiki sees during the opening credits is a real aircraft, the Handley-Page HP42. Eight of these planes - the first four-engined aircraft ever built - were commissioned during the 1930s; later they were converted to military use, and all were destroyed by 1941. But since this movie - according to director Hayao Miyazaki - takes place in a world where World War II never happened, it's plausible that the HP42 would still be in civilian service. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The Disney dub refers several times to the airship as a "dirigible", which is correct, but also as a "blimp", which it isn't; it is a zeppelin, a rigid airship with an internal skeleton that holds it in shape, not a blimp, which is basically a big helium-inflated balloon held in shape by the helium. more
Quotes:
Kiki: Smile so we can make a good impression. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Mimi wo sumaseba (1995) more

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32 out of 37 people found the following comment useful.
uplifting movie, 26 January 2005
10/10
Author: danny666 from California, US

Another great Miyazaki film. A young witch, with a good heart, leaves her mom and dad on her 13th birthday with her black cat, as all witches are supposed to do to complete her training and make it on her own. She looks for a city in need of a witch and finds a city near an ocean. She meets some other good hearted people who help her along the way.

There really isn't a villain in the movie and it's mainly a slice of life type of film. In the end of the film it all comes together and she performs a heroic act.

I tried to watch the dubbed version. Dunst was fine, but I just couldn't stand Garofolo and Hartman. So set the DVD audio to the original Japanese soundtrack and used English subtitles.

If you watch the dubbed version. Turn on the subtitles and you will see all the additional dialog they added. They just couldn't help padding their roles, especially Hartman.

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