Kiki's Delivery Service

1998 "I was feeling blue, but I'm better now."
7.8| 1h43m| G| en| More Info
Released: 23 May 1998 Released
Producted By: Tokuma Shoten
Country: Japan
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://gkids.com/films/kikis-delivery-service
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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.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
bgparker-86611 If you haven't seen any of studio ghibil film this is the one I recommend it.it's different then other kids moive but this isn't only for kids people say that kids moive should only be for kids.buts that's not The truth kid moive is for adults to and this movie proves it.
shaownmahmud Ghibly & Miyazaki wonderful combination. Not only love these movies but also wish the best for them who created. Not just a eye catching movie, will definitely leave something, you won't forget.
avi-greene2 I love all the Studio Ghibli masterpieces that have been directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and feature an original score and original songs composed by Joe Hisaishi. This is a movie released in Japan that contains beautiful artwork, and a story to it where there is a thirteen-year old girl named Kiki. She is intending to be a witch-in-training, because it is a tradition that when a girl turns thirteen they go away for two years on broomsticks. That's what Kiki does with her beautiful black cat named Jiji. Together, they use Kiki's mother's broom, and go to a French town where Kiki stays with a baker named Osono. During her stay with Osono, Kiki loses her witch's powers, so she flies down a local hill where the broom breaks in half. A woman named Ursula then takes Kiki to her cabin/art studio, where Kiki learns that when she flies, she has to rely on what's inside of her. She then takes the broomstick of a man who lives in the same town as Osono, to save a local teenage boy who is learning all about aviation from Kiki. His name is Tombo, and he is seen taking Kiki on a tour of town on his bicycle that comes with a propeller so he can actually bike on air. It breaks, and they land on a beach shore, but this happens before Kiki loses her witch's powers later in the film. So, getting back to the part with Tombo when Kiki has a brand new broomstick, Tombo is seen riding on the bottom of a huge dirigible that flies into the town. What happens in that scene is that the dirigible is flying towards the top of a clock tower, and when it gets to that point there is a huge crash. Kiki has to save Tombo from falling down when the bottom of the dirigible breaks, and she has to rely on her spirit to save Tombo. She catches him, and they float down to a mat. Kiki writes to her parents at the end of the movie, to tell them her delivery service is going well, and that she misses home, and is getting comfortable where she is living now.About what my opinion is about this classic from Studio Ghibli in Tokyo, I love the songs at the beginning and end of the original Japanese release, and they are called "Rouge no Dengon" in the start of the movie, and "Yasashisa ni tsutsumareta nara" in the end. They respectively translate in English to "Message in Rouge", and "If I've been enveloped in tenderness". However, I have different opinions about the English dub. I am very entertained by the comedic acting of the late actor Phil Hartman, who voiced Jiji in the English release of this Miyazaki/Hisaishi project. The English dub also includes Kirsten Dunst as Kiki, Matthew Lawrence as Tombo, Debbie Reynolds as Osono, and Janeane Garofalo as Ursula. They are very good, too. What I probably have as the only complaint I have against the English dub is that the songs that were included in the Japanese release were replaced by two songs that I don't think were as good. They are "Soarin'" in the opening credits and "I'm Gonna Fly" in the end credits.All in all, though, I think this is a must check-out for everyone who is fond of anime.
Darth-Helmet In the year 1960 in a European city that is not named in an alternate world where WWI and WWII never happened, a 13 year old witch named Kiki (voiced by Minami Takayama in the Japanese version and Kirsten Dunst in the US dub) has left her home to train for her special skills as it's a tradition that every witch who is 13 years old must go out on their own for special training even in magic skills. Kiki with her faithful talking pet cat Jiji (voiced by Rei Sakuma in the Japanese version and Phil Hartman in the US dub) take shelter in a bakery/house owned by a married couple who owns the bakery named Osono (voiced by Keido Toda in the Japanese version and Tress Macneille in the US dub) and Fuoko (voiced by Koichi Yamadera in the Japanese version and Brad Garret in the US dub) in the attic of their house. She decides to set up a high-flying delivery service in delivering stuff to people. She must do everything into become a full fledged witch and earn responsibility even gaining friendship to find her place in the world.A very entertaining, well written and dazzling 1989 animated fantasy-drama from famous Japanese animation filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki whom is one of the most gifted filmmakers/storytellers in animation, graphic novel and motion picture history. Based on a novel by Eiko Kandano, Miyazaki adapts the story for the big screen and was a box-office hit in it's native country in 1989 and earning critical acclaim. It came to the US in 1998 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment with the voices of Kirstein Dunst, Phil Hartman, Debbie Reynolds, Kath Soucie, Matthew Lawrence and Janeane Garofalo and was a success on the home video market in the US and one of the movies that made anime mainstream just like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll and more and was the third time a Miyazaki movie came to the US. First it was Nausicaa in a butchered cut called Warriors of the Wind in 1985 then Castle of Cogliostro by Streamline in 1991 then My Neighbor Totoro in 1993 by Troma/Fox.I first saw this in 98 when i was a teen and been one of my fave anime movies since and it's a delightful, funny, sweet and charming motion picture that appeals to both genders and all ages. I like how there's no villain or bad guy for this one which is quite refreshing for a Ghibli film with Totoro, it's a story about gaining independence and learning that friendship can be a nice thing. The animation is purely stunning in it's 2D glory and voice acting is very nice in the Japanese version, the dub is decent yet Matthew Lawrence as Tombo the boy who falls for Kiki sounds kind of older. Yet the dub is one of Phil Hartman's last roles before his untimely death, RIP poor Hartman but he did a nice voice performance as Jiji in the US version.Joe Hisahi's score is totally magnificent and has a charm to it even the feel of the movie is one of those feel good movies that makes you warm inside at the end and the characters are likable especially Tombo to Kiki.