Kiki's Delivery Service
Kiki is a witch, born to a witch mother and ordinary human father. The film follows the story of Kiki, who reached the age of 13, and as the tradition of her mother's family goes on, she has to go out in search of another city where there are no witches to be the witch of that city. Surely her journey is not without difficulties. She is a girl who has never left her city.
26 July 1957, The Bronx, New York, USA
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28 September 1964, Newton, New Jersey, USA
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2 June 1946, Chiba, Japan
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19 October 1948, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
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1 April 1932, El Paso, Texas, USA
27 January 1955, Encino, California, USA
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27 September 1960, San Diego County, California, USA
20 October 1956, Chiba, Japan
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November 27, 2013
An endearing fantasy adventure from Japanese master-animator Hayao Miyazaki is given a quality Disney makeover in its English-language version.
November 26, 2012
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.
March 29, 2010
A wonderful and enchanting animated film about a 13-year-old girl's initiation into adulthood through her adventures in a strange city.
June 28, 2014
...a visual swoon over the delights of flight.
October 17, 2017
Kiki is at that difficult age where she teeters constantly brazen overconfidence and frustrating self-doubt. It's an age that many parents fear, but it's handled gracefully in Kiki's Delivery Service.
December 04, 2015
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.
August 24, 2017
Repeated viewings will only add to the pleasure -- and rest assured, there were probably be many of those.
November 26, 2012
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.
February 20, 2014
[Miyazaki] revitalizes conventional tropes, using elegant imagery to say something substantial about growing up, and he even subverts gender stereotypes along the way.
August 10, 2009
Top-drawer kiddie fare for both fans of the exotic and mainstream family auds.
May 26, 2016
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 24, 2016
Miyazaki's giddy, glorious seaside story about a budding young witch and her sarcastic cat.

