Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

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103 min - Animation | Adventure | Family - 29 July 1989 (Japan)

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Ratings: 7.8/10 from 25,958 users
Reviews: 127 user | 72 critic

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.

Director:

Hayao Miyazaki

Writers:

Eiko Kadono (novel), Hayao Miyazaki (screenplay)

Stars:

Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama and Rei Sakuma

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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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Storyline

This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now thirteen years old. But she is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a talking cat named Jiji by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home. Written by Anthony Pereyra (hypersonic91@yahoo.com)

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

29 July 1989 (Japan) See more »

Also Known As:

El Delivery de Kiki See more »

Box Office

Budget:

¥800,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nibariki, Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV), Studio Ghibli See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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Trivia

During the production phase, Hayao Miyazaki and his artists traveled to Sweden to research for the film. The photographs they took of Stockholm and Visby, formed the basis of the fictional city of Koriko. The city also contains elements of Lisbon, Paris, San Francisco, and Milan. See more »

Goofs

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: 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. See more »

Quotes

Jiji: [Jiji looks at his paws and around the room that is covered in flour] If you wake up tomorrow and find a white cat, it's me.
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Crazy Credits

In the Disney english version:In Memory of Phil Hartman 1948-1998 See more »

Connections

Referenced in "Weakest link: Hitori gachi no hôsoku: Episode dated 26 August 2002" (2002) See more »