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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's Delivery Service may refer to: Kiki's Delivery Service, the original novel and its sequels Kiki's Delivery Service, musical adaptations of the book and the anime film; Kiki's Delivery Service, an anime film adaptation directed by Hayao Miyazaki; Kiki's Delivery Service, a live-action adaptation of the first two novels
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