Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Review | Studio Ghibli's First Box Office Hit | MNWD Ep. 49
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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Review | Studio Ghibli's First Box Office Hit | MNWD Ep. 49
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September is Fan Picks month — every film chosen from listener suggestions — and we're opening with two firsts for the show at once: our first animated film and our first film not in English.
Kiki's Delivery Service was never meant to be a Hayao Miyazaki picture. He came on as producer while Sunao Katabuchi prepared his directorial debut. Miyazaki read the first draft, rewrote it, and ended up taking over entirely, expanding a planned sixty-minute special into a 102-minute feature.
It rescued Studio Ghibli. Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies had earned acclaim without profit. Kiki's, released July 1989, became the first Ghibli film to succeed on initial release and the highest-grossing film in Japan that year, which paid for everything that followed.
Riley leads Story and Themes. Mark takes the Acting section, bringing decades of St. Louis theater to a film with no actors on screen. There's a hot take, a rating, and an old man lying about his age.
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