Ghibli Year flies ahead with Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service, a heartwarming, gorgeously-animated story of growth and independence.
A 13-year-old trainee witch spends her year of mandatory independent life trying to navigate a new community while supporting herself by running an air courier service. Crafty, imaginative, and tenacious in her pursuit, the green young witch is joined by her talking black cat Jiji as she struggles to settle into the seaside port town of Koriko. Struggles with exhaustion and purpose mark an adolescent journey of a girl in crisis with artist's block, striving to regain her flying powers.
The most popular film in Japan upon its release in 1989, Kiki's Delivery Service is a winning tale of vulnerability, maturity, and struggling to get by on the road (or flight) to self-acceptance.
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