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| Product Title: | Kiki's Delivery Service (Hong Kong Version) 魔女宅急便 (香港版) 魔女宅急便 (香港版) Kiki's Delivery Service (Hong Kong Version) Kiki's Delivery Service (Hong Kong Version) |
| Producer: | Miyazaki Hayao 宮崎駿 宫崎骏 宮崎駿 Miyazaki Hayao |
| Release Date: | 2001-12-29 |
| Language: | Cantonese, Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
| Rating: | I |
| Duration: | 86 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Intercontinental Video (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 170 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1001821780 |
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Kiki, a witch-in-training, is now 13 years old and according to tradition, she must leave home to find a town in which to practice her magic. Putting her special powers of flying to good use, she sets up a Special Delivery Service. However, her biggest challenge comes when she has lost the power to fly on her broom. She must do some soul-searching and rediscover her flying "spirit" to save the life of a friend in a dramatic rescue before the entire town...
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Professional Review of "Kiki's Delivery Service (Hong Kong Version) "
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You know, reviewing all these Studio Ghibli films is beginning to take its toll. My thesaurus is shredded trying to find new superlatives and let's face it, if I say, perfectly realised characters one more time the Reviewers Guild is going take away my keyboard, fez and ceremonial dagger. In Kiki's Delivery Service Myazaki explores a character's need to define themself and establish their independence in the world. His heroine Kiki, bursting with verve and enthusiasm, moves to a large city where, for the first time she encounters the problems of loneliness and future uncertainty. Kiki's problems of that of a teenager moving toward adulthood. Her witchy wardrobe, (which, although black, certainly is the height of frumpy chic), marks her as different and thus a figure of some ridicule to those of her own age. Myazaki captures her conflict between her wanting to fit in battling her desire to run and hide. Myazaki's world design evokes his love of pre-war Europe. It is a bright, sunny and bustling coastal Mediterranean city. His focus is one again on the small triumphs of life. Myazaki lifts the simple task of Kiki delivering a birthday present into the realm of high adventure. The cast is filled with wonderfully drawn and understated characters. Kiki's cat familiar, Jiji provides moments of great hilarity with self-absorbed observations that show a complete disregard for tact. Kiki makes a number of friends in her new town: the pregnant and effervescent Osono and her silent yet demonstrative baker husband who offer Kiki a room; Tombo, a teenage boy with dreams of flying who immediately falls for Kiki; and Ursula, a painter who Kiki discovers working alone in the forest. It is this last character who plays a pivotal role in Kiki's journey. When Kiki is faced with a loss of confidence it is Ursula who shows Kiki the universality of her feelings, the importance of maintaining passion when faced with indifference and continuing to work when inspiration is lacking. If I had to be critical, Myazaki's dramatic set piece ending somewhat undercuts what has gone before. One highly visible heroic deed establishes Kiki in the town overshadowing her personal insights gained through struggle. It also gives the film an abrupt ending which Myazaki attempts to redress with a series of events that play during the credits. Ultimately, these are minor quibbles and once again Myazaki presents a masterful story for all ages that skilfully uses a young witch's powers as a powerful metaphor for utilising one talents and leaving one own unique imprint on the world. 9 transistor radios out of 10 by Andrew Symons - heroic-cinema.com |
Editor's Pick of "Kiki's Delivery Service (Hong Kong Version) "
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December 6, 2007
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Another work of passion, Miyazaki Hayao's fifth directorial film turned into a major success for Studio Ghibli.
There is a certain charm about Kiki's Delivery Service that won me over as soon as this movie was in my DVD player. It all starts with the relaxing music by Miyazaki's first choice film score composer Hisaishi Joe whose acoustic sounds complement this original story about a thirteen-year-old witch like a glove fits the hand. As for the stunning artwork from the now established Japanese animation studio the world has come to know and love, many viewers including myself may get the idea to look for original paintings from the movie to put up at home. As background motifs for his story, Miyazaki's team chose selected idyllic locations situated in Sweden, Portugal, and Ireland as inspiration and the final scenery probably couldn't look more beautiful. I've been spellbound by the idea of magic ever since I was a kid, and Kiki, based on a book series by Kadono Eiko, is another character who managed to grab my attention right from the start. The combination of magic and nature works nicely as we see Kiki take off with her cat companion Jiji. With respect to the protagonist, it is very easy for the audience to identify with her, as she sleeps and eats and even becomes sick just as normal people do. Some of the scenes to watch out for include the one where she is stopped by a policeman for disobeying traffic rules in her own inimitable style, and the one in which her cat turns on the transistor radio for a little entertainment during their flight on the broom. Overall, viewers cannot go wrong with this notable early work by animation master Miyazaki. Combining fantasy with moments of comedy, enlightenment, and heroics, Kiki's Delivery Service presents an all-round family anime that should please young and old audiences alike. |
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Customer Review of "Kiki's Delivery Service (Hong Kong Version) "
Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: (9)
May 17, 2005
This customer review refers to Kiki's Delivery Service (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
Kiki doesn't deserve a bad review
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Kiki's delivery service has a great story and is very funny especially if you are listening to the English voice track (the dark voice of jiji the cat). This movie is violent free but is never boring; in my opinion one of the very best movies made by Studio Ghibli. In short the story is about a witch that has to learn to live by her own... I don't like spoiling the movie, so just watch and enjoy it! Cheers, a huge Studio-Ghibli-Fan. |
March 3, 2005
This customer review refers to Kiki's Delivery Service (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
Great
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i have seen this film ( kiki Delivery Service) since i was little but in a cantonese version the film is not that intresting all it is about a 14 or 13 year old girl flighting her bloom like a witch and kiki black cat tin see that can talk. the sad part is when the black cat does not talk. i know what happen's in the end not tellin u |
January 10, 2005
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I first became interested in this anime after reading a review of in in The Anime Cafe whose main reviewers, Akio Nagatomi and Jane Nagatomi maintain what has got to be the best all around anime movie review site in Canada; possibly the best in the English speaking world. Character development is Kiki's strong point and we watch as three of the movies central characters; Kiki, Ursula and Tombo make major adjustments to lifes challenges through courage, determination, insight, and friendship. The movie's central theme is young adolescent rites of passage as personified in the character of Kiki, a budding witch-in-training who has just turned thirteen and must, as part of traditional witches custom, spend a year away from her hometown to try to develop her witchy life's talent in a strange place. This, of course, means that she must leave everything and everyone she knows and loves behind. The only exception is her black cat Jiji, a skeptical, sarcastic and acerbic little fur-ball who is taken along and winds up facing some major problems and adjustments of his own. Kiki is just beginning to develop a serious interest in boys and the movies secondary plot, which is masterfully interwoven with it's primary, is the on-again, off-again relationship she develops with a young boy with an amateur interest in flying (in heavier than air contraptions, for the most part) who she meets in the big town where she settles for her one year trial witching initiation period. Kiki's relationship to him, a lady artist living in a nearby forest, the pregnant lady who gave her her first break in the town she decides to live in and various other characters, all wonderfully rendered, are what makes up the substance of this tale. Kiki's Delivery Service belongs among the stellar animes of all time. |
July 12, 2003
This customer review refers to Kiki's Delivery Service
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KiKi's delivery service is just another amazing anime from japan! the storyline is amazing...this is the kind of movie that you will enjoy it evrytime you watch it again and again. |
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February 9, 2003
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I have to agree with all the rest, this is one of the world's best animations! Imagine this...producing a character - a good witch, living in the 19th century, travelling from places to places. What a beautiful scenery they had!!! Also at the same time making it seem so realistic, which makes you think "how can that be???" Honestly, I've watched this more than 10 times and I grew up with this animation since I was 8. I never got bored of it!! I recommend highly to everyone - Get the DVD for this!!! It is absolutely worth $26!!! We're talking a worthy investment here!!!! Don't waste your $8 on the VCD and later regretting that you should've gotten the DVD!!! |
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