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General Information:
Japanese title: Majo no
Takkyubin
(Literally "Witch's Express Delivery.")
English title: Kiki's Delivery Service
(both Japanese and BVHE versions) Running time: 102 min 46
sec (J), ~103 min (BVHE)
Production
Production budget, planned: ¥800 million
Production period: April 1, 1988 - July 17, 1989
Number of cels used: 67,317
Number of colors used: 462
Aspect ratio: 1:1.85 (Vista size)
Sound: Dolby Stereo (J), Dolby Digital (BVHE)
Japanese Premiere: July
29, 1989; general release
Length of theater run: 77 days
Number of theaters shown: 138
Number of attendance: 2,640,619
Film rental revenue: ¥2.17 billion
US Premiere of BVHE version:
May 23, 1998; Seattle International Film Festival
Also shown subsequently in some US film festivals
Direct-to-video only; currently not planned to be released
theatrically
MPAA rating: G (General Audiences) North American release
date: September 1, 1998, on VHS video and Laserdisc
Staff credit, Japanese version:
Produced, Written, and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Original Story: Eiko Kadono (novel of the same title published by
Fukuinkan Shoten)
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Music Direction: Isao Takahata
Opening Song: "Rouge no Dengon (Message of Rouge) by Yumi Arai
Ending Song: "Ysashisa ni Tsusumaretanata (If I've Been
Enveloped by Tenderness)" by Yumi Arai
Character Design: Katsuya Kondo
Supervising Animators: Shinji Otsuka, Katsuya Kondo, Yoshifumi
Kondo
Key Animation: Yoshinori Kaneda, Makiko Futaki, Masako Shinohara,
Masaaki Endo, Toshio Kawaguchi, Atsuko Oya, Ai Kagawa, Atsuko
Fukushima, Toshiyuki Inoue, Noriko Moritomo, Kouji Morimoto,
Yoshiharu Sato, Natsuyo Hoda, Sachiko Sugino, HIroshi Watanabe,
Hiroomi Yamakawa, Shouetsu Hane, Chie Uratani, Masahito Sekino,
Toshiya Niidome, Akiko Hasegawa
Art Director: Hiroshi Ono
Backgrounds: Kazuo
Oga, Satoshi Kuroda, Kazuhiro
Kinoshita, Kiyomi Ota, etc.
Color Design: Michiyo Yasuda
Special Effects: Kaoru Tanifuji
Camera: Shigeo Sugimura
Editor: Takeshi Seyama
Associate Producer: Toshio Suzuki
Assistant Director: Sunao Katabuchi
Executive Producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Mikihiko Tsuzuki, Morihisa
Takagi
A Joint Production of Tokuma Publishing Co. Ltd., Yamato Transport Company Ltd, and Nippon Television Network Corporation
Japanese Voices:
Additional staff credit for BVHE version:
Executive producer: Jane Schonberger
U.S. version adoption: John Semper, Jack Fletcher
Voice Casting and Director: Jack Fletcher
Music: Paul Chihara, Sydney
Forest
Opening Song: "Soaring" by Sydney Forest
Ending Song: "I'm
Gonna Fly" by Sydney Forest
Sound (Dolby): Ernie Sheesley
A Buena Vista Home Entertainment presentation of a Studio Ghibli
production
English Voices:
Kiki... Kirsten Dunst
Jiji... Phil Hartman
Ursula... Janeane Garofolo
Tombo... Matthew Lawrence
Madame... Debbie Reynolds
Osono... Tress MacNeille
Barsa... Edie McClurg
Mom... Kath Soucie
With: Jeff Bennett, Pamela Segall, Debi Derryberry, June Angela, Corey Burton, Lewis Arquette, Fay Dewitt, Susan Hickman, Sherry Lynn, Matt Miller, Scott Menville, Eddie Frierson, John and Julia Demita
Award list:
Best Animated Film: 44th Mainichi Film
Competition
Best Japanese Film of the Year, Voted by Readers: Kinema
Junpo (a prestigious Japanese movie
magazine)
Special Award: Japan Academy Award
Tokyo Metropolitan Cultural Honor
7th Annual Money Making Director's Award
Gold, Japanese Film: 7th Annual Golden Gross Award
Special Achievement Award: The Movie's Day
Special Award: The Erandole Award
Best Film and Best Director: Japan Cinema Association Award
Excellent Movie: Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs (a
government agency under the Ministry of Education)
Best Anime: 12th Annual Anime Grand Prix