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Kiki's Delivery Service
1989
· Movie
· 103 min
A
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #43
- IMDb #71
- Google retired #66
- Rotten Tomatoes #49
- Metacritic #34
- Letterboxd #49
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #35
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #95
- Metacritic Critics #43
- Metacritic Audience #42
- Criticker #24
- Douban #27
- Kinopoisk #47
- AlloCiné #114
- Trakt #41
Every rating
67–98
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 67, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98.
See the most agreed on films →A young witch-in-training, as is tradition, must spend a year alone in a new city to complete her training. With only her talking black cat, she starts a flying delivery service. She faces the challenges of independence, self-doubt, and finding her place in a community that is initially wary of her.
Details
- Director
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Writer
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Based on
- Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
- Released
- 29 July 1989
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese, English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $6.9M
- Box office
- $4.5M
- Awards
- 13 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →13 wins from 13 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| 12th Anime Grand Prix 1989 | Best Anime | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
| 12th Anime Grand Prix 1989 | Best Female Character | Kiki | Winner |
| 12th Anime Grand Prix 1989 | Best Anime Theme Song | " Yasashisa ni Tsutsumaretanara " | Winner |
| 13th Japan Academy Prize 1989 | Popularity Award | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
| 13th Japan Academy Prize 1989 | Special Award | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
| 44th Mainichi Film Award 1989 | Best Animated Film | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
| 7th Annual Golden Gross Award 1989 | Gold, Japanese Film | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
| Agency of Cultural Affairs 1989 | Best Film | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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12th Anime Grand Prix
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Anime | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
| Best Anime Theme Song | " Yasashisa ni Tsutsumaretanara " | Winner |
| Best Female Character | Kiki | Winner |
13th Japan Academy Prize
2 nominations, 2 won
| Popularity Award | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
| Special Award | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
Japan Cinema Association Award
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Director | Hayao Miyazaki | Winner |
| Best Film | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
44th Mainichi Film Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Film | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
7th Annual Golden Gross Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Gold, Japanese Film | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
Agency of Cultural Affairs
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
Kinema Junpo Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Readers' Choice Award | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
The Erandole Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Special Award | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |
The Movie's Day
1 nomination, 1 won
| Special Achievement Award | Kiki's Delivery Service | Winner |