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Kiki's Delivery Service

Original title: Majo no takkyûbin
  • 19891989
  • GG
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
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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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
148K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,011
3
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    • Eiko Kadono(novel)
    • Hayao Miyazaki(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kirsten Dunst(English version)
    • Minami Takayama(voice)
    • Rei Sakuma(voice)
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    • Eiko Kadono(novel)
    • Hayao Miyazaki(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kirsten Dunst(English version)
    • Minami Takayama(voice)
    • Rei Sakuma(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 281User reviews
    • 127Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
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    Kirsten Dunst
    Kirsten Dunst
    • Kiki
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Minami Takayama
    Minami Takayama
    • Kiki
    • (voice)
    • …
    Rei Sakuma
    • Jiji
    • (voice)
    Kappei Yamaguchi
    Kappei Yamaguchi
    • Tombo
    • (voice)
    Keiko Toda
    Keiko Toda
    • Osono
    • (voice)
    Mieko Nobusawa
    • Kokiri - Kiki's Mother
    • (voice)
    Kôichi Miura
    • Okino - Kiki's Father
    • (voice)
    Haruko Katô
    Haruko Katô
    • Rô-fujin
    • (voice)
    Hiroko Seki
    • Barsa
    • (voice)
    Yuriko Fuchizaki
    • Ketto
    • (voice)
    Kôichi Yamadera
    Kôichi Yamadera
    • Bakery Worker
    • (voice)
    • …
    Kikuko Inoue
    Kikuko Inoue
    • Maki
    • (voice)
    Yûko Kobayashi
    • Young Sempai Witch
    • (voice)
    Mika Doi
    Mika Doi
    • Ketto's Mother
    • (voice)
    Takaya Hashi
    • Ketto's Father
    • (voice)
    Chika Sakamoto
    • Baby
    • (voice)
    Toshiko Asai
      Yoshiko Kamei
          • Hayao Miyazaki
          • Eiko Kadono(novel)
          • Hayao Miyazaki(screenplay)
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        • Trivia
          During the production phase, Hayao Miyazaki and his artists travelled 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.
        • 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.
        • Quotes

          Kiki: That painter who found the stuffed cat told me she wants to do a drawing with me in it.

          Jiji: Naked?

          Kiki: Jiji!

        • Crazy credits
          The denouement scenes of the film play out with the credits rolling ending with Kiki's parents reading a letter from her after the credits finish.
        • Alternate versions
          A new English dub of this film was released in 1998 by the Walt Disney Company. This version featured the vocal talents of Kirsten Dunst as Kiki, Janeane Garofalo as Ursala and Debbie Reynolds. Phil Hartman provided the voice of Jiji in one of his final roles.
        • Connections
          Edited into Miyazaki Dreams of Flying (2017)
        • Soundtracks
          Soaring
          Performed by Sydney Forest
          Written by Sydney Forest exclusively for Disney's 1998 English dub re-release

        User reviews281

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        10/10
        uplifting movie
        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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        • danny666
        • Jan 26, 2005

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        • Release date
          • December 20, 1990 (United States)
          • Japan
          • Disney's Official Site
          • Japanese
          • English
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        • Production companies
          • Kiki's Delivery Service Production Committee
          • Nibariki
          • Nippon Television Network (NTV)
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        • 1 hour 43 minutes
          • Color
          • Dolby Stereo

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