Kiki's Delivery Service
Young girl named 'Kiki' who has to leave her home for a full year in order to start training to be charming according to the traditions of her family. She leaves on her roof, saying goodbye to her family and friends with her cat Gigi. To undergo various different experiments.
18 November 1953, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 September 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 December 1968, Tokyo, Japan
3 August 1955, West Los Angeles, California, USA
12 February 1971, Malibu, California, USA
22 June 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
20 June 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 December 1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 October 1962, Houston, Texas, USA
5 January 1965, Tokyo, Japan
24 December 1950, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA
19 October 1948, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
8 December 1953, Kagoshima, Japan
17 June 1961, Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan
27 September 1960, San Diego County, California, USA
25 May 1967, Ibaraki, Japan
22 November 1959, Akron, Ohio, USA
20 October 1956, Chiba, Japan
December 8, 1935 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]
4 April 1932, New York City, New York, USA
9 July 1966, New York City, New York, USA
31 March 1958, New York City, New York, USA
24 November 1922, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
11 February 1980, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
30 April 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
23 July 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
18 August 1959, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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.
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.
November 27, 2013
An endearing fantasy adventure from Japanese master-animator Hayao Miyazaki is given a quality Disney makeover in its English-language version.
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.
May 24, 2016
Miyazaki's giddy, glorious seaside story about a budding young witch and her sarcastic cat.
August 10, 2009
Top-drawer kiddie fare for both fans of the exotic and mainstream family auds.
June 28, 2014
...a visual swoon over the delights of flight.
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.
August 24, 2017
Repeated viewings will only add to the pleasure -- and rest assured, there were probably be many of those.
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.
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.

