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At her mother's behest, 13-year-old witch Kiki sets out on a year-long apprenticeship with her black cat in tow. She soon finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

Genre:

Drama, Adventure, Animation

Actors:

Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawa, Kôichi Miura, Haruko Katô, Hiroko Seki, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kôichi Yamadera, Kikuko Inoue, ...»

Director:

Hayao Miyazaki

Country:

Japan

Release:

1989

IMDb:

7.8

Quality:

Duration:

103 min

Variety

Top-drawer kiddie fare for both fans of the exotic and mainstream family auds.

August 10, 2009

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Seanax.com

The magic of Kiki is the girl's sense of wonder in her new world, whether it's her soaring flight among the migrating geese or a bicycle ride... to see the dirigible.

March 25, 2010

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Movie Mezzanine

[Miyazaki] revitalizes conventional tropes, using elegant imagery to say something substantial about growing up, and he even subverts gender stereotypes along the way.

February 20, 2014

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Chicago Reader

The characters are gently and warmly rendered, and a climactic action sequence involving an unmoored dirigible hints at the stately grandiosity of Miyazaki's masterpiece Howl's Moving Castle.

November 26, 2012

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Spirituality and Practice

A wonderful and enchanting animated film about a 13-year-old girl's initiation into adulthood through her adventures in a strange city.

March 29, 2010

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LarsenOnFilm

...a visual swoon over the delights of flight.

June 28, 2014

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Empire Magazine

A terrific alternative to the diabetic's nightmare that is most of Disney's output, Kiki's Delivery Service takes pride of place in Miyazaki's exceptional body of work.

November 26, 2012

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Guardian

The film becomes a benign guided tour of femininity ... gently broaching universal coming-of-age issues such as independence, insecurity, and even - more boldly than any Western children's movie would contemplate - sexuality.

May 26, 2016

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Reel Film Reviews

The film's status as a top-tier animated endeavor is baffling, to say the least, and it's ultimately difficult not to wonder what its ardent followers have embraced so passionately over the years.

December 04, 2015

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Antagony & Ecstasy

A fine, sincere piece of bittersweet delight.

March 20, 2010

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Radio Times

An endearing fantasy adventure from Japanese master-animator Hayao Miyazaki is given a quality Disney makeover in its English-language version.

November 27, 2013

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Time Out

Miyazaki's giddy, glorious seaside story about a budding young witch and her sarcastic cat.

May 24, 2016

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