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starring: Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawadirected by: Hayao Miyazaki
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788811074
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 078881107X
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 7717
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1989
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
In Hayao Miyazaki's magical Kiki's Delivery Service, a 13-year-old girl meets the world head on as she spends her first year soloing as an apprentice witch. Kiki (Kirsten Dunst) is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a cat Jiji (a gently subdued Phil Hartman) by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home. Miyazaki's gentle rhythm and meandering narrative capture the easy pulse of real life (even if his subject is a girl flying high upon a broomstick) and charts the everyday struggles and growing pains of his plucky heroine with sensitivity and understanding. Beautifully detailed animation and the rich designs of the picture-postcard seaside town of red-tiled roofs and cobblestone streets only add to the sense of wonder. This charming animated fantasy is a wholesome, life-affirming picture that doesn't speak down to kids or up to adults. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - So darn cute
Kiki's Delivery Service is a very good and cute movie for all ages. The animation and voice talent is very good (watched it in Japanese, but the English translation is pretty good as well). The movie is about Kiki, a witch in training, who moves away from home in order to train. She reaches a pretty big city where she meets people that help her throughout the movie and also sets up a delivery service. Kiki deals with the challenges of the delivery service, making friends and dealing with her magic. ... Read More
Rating:  - A solid entry to Miyazaki's legacy.
I don't consider this to be up to Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli standards, but it's also not the worst thing they've produced. Just so you know where I stand, it's better than Castle in The Sky, but not as good as Mononoke, Nausicaa, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, or Totoro. That being said, it's still a good movie that's fun to watch. It can move kind of slow and some of the English voice work is poorly done, but it still has the fantastic art and that feeling that something special was put into the ... Read More
Rating:  - This film delivers! (Volume 1: Part 5)
Enter a world where witches are kind, but their job can be pretty hard. 'Kiki's Delivery Service' introduces Kiki, a 13 year old witch that is ready to begin her right of passage by going out into the world to find a town that needs a witch to be it's guide. Excited to go she comes across this big bustling city by the sea and encounters more than she bargened for. Not any monsters or evil sorcerers, but life. Figuring out what her purpose in life must be she learns about earning money, why boys can be ... Read More
Rating: - A delightful adventure
This is one of Miyazaki's best. He combines his love for exotic moving landscapes that are a gorgeous visual feast. As well as lovely imagery this movie has a story about the coming of age of a young witch who must grow up, and most importantly gather her courage to be a strong young woman. This movie is truly something that all young girls should watch. Its right up there with the classic Disney movies: Ariel, Lady & the Tramp, Beauty & the Beast...This is something you should definitely not ... Read More
Rating: - Another Winner
Wonderful, whimsical....absolutely beautiful story. I has the same Miyazaki heart and soul that we have already seen in Spirited Away, but this time the story is about a young witch who is looking for her place in the world. Really lovely story telling.
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