Kiki's Delivery Service [SteelBook] [Blu-ray]

Overview

Veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki directs this buoyant children's adventure yarn about a young witch striking out on her own. At her mother's behest, 13-year-old Kiki sets out on a year-long apprenticeship with her black cat in tow. With a shaky command of her broom, she ends up in a charming little coastal town that looks like a cross between the French provincial and San Francisco. Unfortunately, the local hotels have a strict "no witches" policy and the police have taken a dim view of her recent aerial mischief-making. She's saved from the street by a kindly baker's wife, who offers her room and board in exchange for her delivering by broom the baker's wares. Soon she befriends a college-aged artist, an old women who fusses over her, and a boy her same age who is nursing a massive crush. All is well until she wakes up one day and realizes that she can't make her broom levitate nor can she talk to her cat. What will Kiki do?

Product Details

Release Date:	08/25/2020
UPC:	0826663208542
Original Release:	1989
Source:	Shout Factory
Language:	English
Sales rank:	306

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kirsten Dunst	Kiki
Matthew Lawrence	Tombo
Debbie Reynolds	Madame
Janeane Garofalo	Ursula
Phil Hartman	Jiji
Adeline Chetail	Voices
Christophe Lemoine	Voices
Françoise Cadol	Voices
Patrice Baudrier	Voices
Melina Borcherding	Voices
Jochen Bendel	Voices
Petra Einhoff	Voices
Claus-Peter Damitz	Voices
Astrid Polak	Voices
Tress MacNeille	Osono
Edie McClurg	Barsa
Kath Soucie	Kiki's Mother
Jeff Bennett	Kiki's Father
Pamela Adlon	Ket
Debi Derryberry	Senior Witch
June Angela	Voices
Corey Burton	Radio Announcer
Lewis Arquette	Voices
Fay DeWitt	Voices
Susan Hickman	Voices
Sherry Lynn	Voices
Matt Miller	Voices
Scott Menville	Voices
Eddie Frierson	Voices
Julia Demita	Voices
John DeMita	Voices
Joe Hisaishi	Composer
Paul Chihara	Composer
Sydney Forest	Composer

Technical Credits

Jack Fletcher

Hayao Miyazaki

Ilmari Unho

Eiko Kadono

John Semper

Jack Fletcher	Casting,Screenwriter
Hayao Miyazaki	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Jane Schonberger	Executive Producer
Morihasa Takagi	Executive Producer
Yasuyoshi Tokuma	Executive Producer
Mikihiko Tsuzuki	Executive Producer
Ilmari Unho	Screenwriter
Eiko Kadono	Screenwriter
Kaoru Tanifuji	Special Effects
John Semper	Screenwriter
Ernie Sheesley	Sound/Sound Designer
Shuji Inoue	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Before Harry Potter ever went to Hogwarts, Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki spun a charming tale about a young witch-in-training in his 1989 feature Kiki's Delivery Service. Thirteen-year-old Kiki leaves her home for one year to become an apprentice witch and learn how to live on her own. Moving into a coastal town with her talking cat, Jiji, Kiki struggles to fit into her new environment and opens her own delivery business courtesy of the only magical power she's good at: flying on her broomstick. Along the way, she makes new friends, struggles with the temporary loss of her magical abilities, and finally gains much in the way of self-confidence. A gentle coming-of-age story closer in tone to Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning Spirited Away than to his adventure film Castle in the Sky, Kiki is a movie that is low on conflict but high in subdued grace notes. Audiences can expect all the usual from a good Miyazaki film: strong storytelling, a child's sense of wonder, and gorgeous animation. Disney's fine English dub features voice stars Kirsten Dunst (as Kiki), Matthew Lawrence, Janeane Garofalo, Debbie Reynolds, and, in one of his last performances, Phil Hartman (as Jiji). Volk Lindsay