Kiki's Delivery Service

Original title: Majo no takkyûbin

1989
U
1h 43m

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7.8/10

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Along with her black cat Jiji, Kiki settles in a seaside town and starts a high-flying delivery service. Here begins her magical encounter with independence and responsibility, making lifelo... Read allAlong with her black cat Jiji, Kiki settles in a seaside town and starts a high-flying delivery service. Here begins her magical encounter with independence and responsibility, making lifelong friends and finding her place in the world.Along with her black cat Jiji, Kiki settles in a seaside town and starts a high-flying delivery service. Here begins her magical encounter with independence and responsibility, making lifelong friends and finding her place in the world.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

176K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,610

156

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins total

Kiki
(English version)
(voice)

Minami Takayama

Kiki
(voice)
…

Rei Sakuma

Jiji
(voice)

Kappei Yamaguchi

Tombo
(voice)

Keiko Toda

Osono
(voice)

Mieko Nobusawa

Kokiri - Kiki's Mother
(voice)

Kôichi Miura

Okino - Kiki's Father
(voice)

Haruko Katô

Rô-fujin
(voice)

Hiroko Seki

Barsa
(voice)

Yuriko Fuchizaki

Ketto
(voice)

Kôichi Yamadera

Bakery Worker
(voice)
…

Kikuko Inoue

Maki
(voice)

Yûko Kobayashi

Young Sempai Witch
(voice)

Mika Doi

Ketto's Mother
(voice)

Takaya Hashi

Ketto's Father
(voice)

Chika Sakamoto

Baby
(voice)

Yoshiko Asai

Yoshiko Kamei

Director
- Hayao Miyazaki
Writers
- Eiko Kadono
- Hayao Miyazaki
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Storyline

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Trivia
During the production phase, Hayao Miyazaki and his artists traveled to Sweden to research 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: Without even thinking about it, I used to be able to fly. Now I'm trying to look inside myself and find out how I did it.

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

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Featured review

10/10

A wonderful movie for all ages!

I kept hearing about how good this movie was, but I put off renting it for the longest time because I dismissed it as some dumb kid's film. Boy, was I wrong! This is a movie that appeals not only to kids, but to teens and adults as well. This is the kind of stuff Disney should be producing nowadays. I own my own copy now and whenever I pop it into my VCR, it always puts me in a good mood.