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Kiki's Delivery Service
A young witch called Kiki, up to 13 years old, still a little inexperienced, but with a lot of imagination, determination and resourcefulness, with her cat Gigi always standing beside her, she is ready to face the whole world or at least the coastal village European Union, which it has chosen as its new homeland.
22 June 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
6 February 1961, Tokyo, Japan
17 August 1959, Tokyo, Japan
9 July 1966, New York City, New York, USA
27 January 1955, Encino, California, USA
21 November 1929
8 December 1953, Kagoshima, Japan
2 February 1960, Rockville Center, New York, USA
December 8, 1935 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]
26 July 1957, The Bronx, New York, USA
12 September 1957, Nagoya, Japan
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
June 28, 2014
...a visual swoon over the delights of flight.
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.
November 27, 2013
An endearing fantasy adventure from Japanese master-animator Hayao Miyazaki is given a quality Disney makeover in its English-language version.
August 10, 2009
Top-drawer kiddie fare for both fans of the exotic and mainstream family auds.
August 24, 2017
Repeated viewings will only add to the pleasure -- and rest assured, there were probably be many of those.
May 24, 2016
Miyazaki's giddy, glorious seaside story about a budding young witch and her sarcastic cat.
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.

