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Kiki's Delivery Service (Japanese: 魔女の宅急便, Hepburn: Majo no Takkyūbin, lit. ' Witch's Express Home Delivery ' ) is a 1989 Japanese animated fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki , based on Eiko Kadono 's 1985 novel Kiki's Delivery Service .
The book follows Kiki, a young witch from a long line of witches on her mother's side. Kiki is now thirteen and must spend a year on her own in a town without other witches, proving that she can make a living. Accompanied by her talking black cat Jiji, Kiki starts a delivery service by flying on her broom. Over the year notable misadventures ...
Film Business Asia gave the film a four out of ten rating, referring to the film as "bland, charmless and undramatic". [1] The review stated that actress Fuka Koshiba was "way too mature for the 13-year-old, waifish Kiki and has a forced perkiness that drags the action down" and stated that "the visual and special effects are more run-of-the-mill 20th century than state-of-the-art 21st". [1]
Kiki, a minor character in Saint Seiya, a Japanese manga series; Kiki, a character created by the Japanese company Sanrio; Kiki, a ferret in the Sluggy Freelance webcomic; Kiki, a parrot in The Adventure Series novels; Kiki, a main character in the Nickelodeon TV series The Fresh Beat Band and its spin-off Fresh Beat Band of Spies
Now referring to a social gathering, kiki developed as categorizations within different queer subcultures of ballroom culture as well as a mid-century American lesbian scene. The uses of this term thus all have historical ties to the LGBT community. [5] The word kiki first evolved from the French word meaning to “to choke” or “to throttle ...
Lê Thanh Vân (December 5, 1956 – October 26, 2005), known as The Cyanide Witch (Vietnamese: Phù Thủy Xyanua) was a Vietnamese fraudster and serial killer who, together with her husband and accomplice Dìu Dãnh Quang, poisoned at least 13 people with cyanide from 1998 to 2001 for financial gain.
Kiki Kaikai (奇々怪界, lit."Strange and Mysterious World") is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Taito for arcades in 1986. [2] Set in Feudal Japan, the player assumes the role of a Shinto shrine maiden who must use her o-fuda scrolls and gohei wand to defeat renegade spirits and monsters from Japanese mythology. [3]
Xuân Cường (director); Phạm Thùy Nhân (writer); Việt Trinh, Chi Bảo, Lê Quang, Ngọc Minh, Kim Loan, Thanh Tâm, Tiết Cương, Phi Vân, Thành Lũy, Nguyễn Đình Thơ, Thanh Thủy, Thiên Lộc, Thụy Vũ... Drama, Historical Based on a story of the same name by Nguyễn Đức Thiện. First released on CTV. 25 Mar