Majo no Takkyubin (Kiki's Delivery Service)

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Dubbed VHS cover
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Soon after its 1989 release in Japan, Kiki was dubbed into English by Carl Macek and shown on JAL trans-Pacific flights.  It's a fairly good dub.  The Macek dub is included in the Ghibli LD Box Set (see below) with English available on the right analogue track.

During 1997-1998, Disney produced a new dub with Kirten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Debbie Reynolds and other A-class talents.  The opening and ending songs were changed to new English songs by Sydney Forest,  some new pieces of music were added (mostly from Kiki Image Album), and credits were changed from Japanese to English, but not even one second was cut from the film.  This new Disney dub version was released in North America on September 1, 1998 on VHS.

Disney also released a subbed VHS of "Kiki" on September 29, 1998. The sub contains the original Japanese opening and ending songs by Yumi ARAI. It is letterboxed, while the dub is pan & scan.

Disney also released Kiki on laserdisc. The laserdisc version is letterboxed, and comes with the original Japanese language track (in mono) on the right analogue track.  It is closed-captioned (based on the dub script).

The English-dub tape is readily available from various online and traditional video stores. The LD and English-sub VHS, on the other hand, are now out of print.

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Video:

4,500 yen

Order #: VWSZ-8008

Letterboxed, Hi Fi stereo, Digitally remastered.

Comes with a clip of Miyazaki's interview with Shigesato ITOI, the voice actor of the father in "Totoro".

From Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Japan)

 

LD:

9,515 yen

Order #: TKLO-50001

From Tokuma Japan Communications

 

 

It is also included in "Ghibli ga Ippai" LD Box set (13 disc set, TKLO 50180, from Tokuma Japan Communications). The box set costs about 1,000 dollars.

You can buy them from Anime importers such as:

Nikaku Animart

http://www.nikaku.com/

The Place in Fremont

http://www.the-place.com/

Planet Anime in Houston

http://www.planetanime.com/

or,

Mikado Laserdisc in San Francisco.

http://www.mikadosf.com/

Video:

• Spanish title: Nicky, La Aprendiz de Bruja
• Price: 1995 pesetas
• Order #: 10303
• Format: PAL; Hi-Fi
• Release date: April, 1999
• Released in Spain by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• (click the cover image to see an enlarged version)

Video:

• Portuguese title: Kiki, A Aprendiz de Feiticeira
• Price: 2900 Escudos
• Language: Portuguese dub (Brazilian)
• Format: PAL; Hi-Fi
• Release date: April, 2000
• Released in Portugal by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
• (click the cover image to see an enlarged version)

Please see Ghibli Around the World Page by Matt Francis.

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• Just Be Toys (lots of Kiki, Totoro, and Mononoke merchandise)