{"id":2625,"date":"2013-04-14T20:55:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T00:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2013-04-17T19:54:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:54:22","slug":"kikis-delivery-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/kikis-delivery-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiki’s Delivery Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4\/5} “You’d think they’d never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before.”<\/p>\n

Kiki is a young witch in training — that means, at age 13, she leaves home to live somewhere else for a year. She finds a town where the people initially seem unfriendly but she eventually finds some friendlier residents. With the help of a baker, she starts her own delivery service. She and her cat Jiji meet up with some interesting people delivering things to them.<\/p>\n

Kiki’s Delivery Service<\/strong> was released in 1989. It’s a Japanese animated movie.<\/p>\n

This is a gentle story, like My Neighbor Totoro<\/strong><\/a>. It’s aimed at kids, but adults won’t find anything to cringe about.<\/p>\n

The world is close to the real one — except there are witches who can fly and cats who can talk.<\/p>\n

It’s about growing up, and friendship — universal themes to be sure, but explored nicely here.<\/p>\n

For most foreign language movies, I watch the subtitled version but this time I watched the dubbed one — so I was listening to the voices of Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia<\/strong><\/a>) as Kiki and Phil Hartman (the TV show NewsRadio<\/strong>) as Jiji.<\/p>\n

The movie was directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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