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This evening's viewing: more #StudioGhibli magic with the utterly gorgeous Laputa, Castle in the Sky
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#film #animation #LaputaCastleInTheSky #AnimatedFilm #ClassicFilm #1980sFilm
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Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) – Review
By the end of the 80s, Studio Ghibli was cooking, creatively speaking, but was still finding it tough to get the appropriate amount of traction at the box office. While disscussing something as crass as money when dealing with the type of creative alchemy that have given audiences back to back movies that casually enriched the soul, the simple fact of the matter is, Ghibli was still in its relative infancy and anime had yet to make that relentless, worldwide breakout that still wouldn’t occur for a few couple of years yet. However, with Kiki’s Delivery Service, the studio would finally enjoy financial success to go with the fact that in under a decade, they’d been doling out straight-up masterpieces while other animation houses (cough * Disney * cough) had noticably struggled during the decade.
Let’s not forget that Ghibli released both My Neighbour Totoro and Grave Of The Fireflies in the same year, a feat that showed the emotional dexterity of filmmakers who delivered polar opposite assaults on our emotional well-being. But what did it take to help the house of Totoro get flush? Nothing much, just a thirteen year-old witch and a flying broom.In a world where witches live alongside humans in harmony despite being relatively rare, we meet Kiki, a thirteen year-old girl who decides its time for her to attempt the tradition all witches her age must do – leave home and live an independent life for a year. While that seems a little much to ask any child, Kiki not only is kind and resourceful, but she has the ability to soar through the sky on her broom and has Jiji, her feline familiar, to keep her company. However, after leaving home she soon encounters a number of minor obstacles such as another, pretentious witch and a rain storm that causes her to first drift off course and then take refuge in a box car until the rain chooses to relent.
However, upon waking up, Kiki finds that she and Jiji have arrived in the city of Koriko and decides to stay and try to make a life for herself – but while she’s enamored of the view of the ocean that she has, her small town upbringing leaves her unprepared for how tough life and lonely can be in a bustling city. Still, the plucky child manages to find a place to live with a kindly woman and her husband who own a bakery and so figures out how to channel her paranormal talents into a form of self employment.
Using her talents of flying on her broomstick, Kiki starts up her own small scale delivery service as she can simply zip across the sky with a parcel and drop it off at it’s destination in no time at all. However, despite the kindness of a lot of her early customers and the constant attention of a local boy named Tombo, Kiki soon finds that forging a life in a big city can be fairly trying and as isolation and depression sets in, she finds that some of her witchy gifts are starting to leave her as the day to day pressures take their toll.The irony of Ghibli’s first financially successful film being about a thirteen year-old going out and starting her own business isn’t lost on me, but there was always a danger that anything that attempted to follow Isao Takahata’s emotion-flaying Grave Of The Fireflies was going to come across as unbelievably twee – after all, the lethally sad wartime drama had been repeatedly hailed as one of the greatest animated movies ever made and proved to be an unforgettable experience. However, the magic of Hayao Miyazaki is that he’s able to benevolently weaponise things that are ridiculously nice in ways that make even the most basic plots warm your heart. For example, on the surface, My Neighbour Totoro wasn’t really about anything really and just followed the lives of two young girls who were excited about moving house and casually had low-energy adventures with a burly, sleepy forest spirit. And yet, despite having no antagonist, no jokes and no action sequences to speak of, Miyazaki turned such unassuming touch points into genuine chicken soup for the soul.
Well, with Kiki’s Delivery Service pulls off the same trick by adapting Eiko Kadono’s novel into yet another beguiling fantasy that, technically speaking, doesn’t fall back on the majority of animated tropes popular at the time. Once again, Miyazaki shrewdly tells another tale that not only proves that he accurately can put himself (and the viewer) in the shoes of a prepubescent girl encountering the world for the first time, but he impressively doesn’t make it creepy either. On top of this, the movie scatters numerous instances about the film that sees a lot of good advice and protection offered to Kiki by an arry of vastly different, but all equally strong women. From Osono the baker generously giving our heroine a place to stay, to the kindly old women who call Kiki to deliver pies baked with pure love to ungrateful grandchildren on their birthdays, to her encounter with jean-short wearing artist, Ursula who lives in the nearby forest, the young witch is given countless life advice by strong mature women to counteract the rather cold and vapid reaction she gets from girls her own age.Once again, detailing how rich and glorious the animation is is now starting to feel somewhat redundant, but I’ll still say that no one in animation can animate grass blowing on a strong breeze quite like the hard working scribblers who work under the Ghibli umbrella – and if that looks good, imagine how good the flying stuff looks. Yep, Miyazaki’s documented weakness for all things that fly gets yet another outing, although its amusing that for all the high flying heroines that’s populated his films, Kiki has moments where her broom flying is actually quite ungainly due to external forces or the fact that has to improvise at one moment with a brush.
But for all the dazzling wonder and memorable characters (Jiji the sassy cat is effortlessly the movie’s MVP), once again it’s those deftly buried life lessons that hit the hardest and while Kiki finds that the confidence sapping effects of modern life is draining her powers as depression set in, it’s remarkable that Miyazaki’s simple message of being true to yourself is delivered so organically when other animation houses would probably base an entire six minute musical number about it. Most remarkable of all is the fact that I would argue that Kiki’s Delivery Service actually does low-key fantasy and growing pains even better than My Neighbour Totoro did and while that final rescue sequence seems a little tacked on compared to how organic Ghibli usually is, it makes the likes of Sabrina The Teenage Witch look like purest trash in comparison.Zipping out from under the emotional heft of Grave Of The Fireflies with yet another delightful flight of fancy, Kiki’s Delivery Service not only cemented Ghibli’s standing at the box office, but delivered yet another overwhelmingly warm cinematic endevor to boot. While the titular witch may not have too many spells of her own, her movie spins more than enough magic to compensate.
#1980s #1989 #Fantasy #Animation #Anime #Japan #FilmReview #StudioGhibli #HayaoMiyazaki #KikiSDeliveryService #MinamiTakayama #ReiSakuma #KappeiYamaguchi #KeikoToda
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This post translates Itoi's tagline for Kiki's Delivery Service as "It's been hard at times, but I'm alright", but I've also seen it translated as "Sometimes, I'd get depressed, but I'm okay now." Which, if accurate, is the best movie tagline I've ever heard.
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Following today's walk with a #vinyl session.
A wonderful regular couple in our bookshop bought this Joe Hisaishi Studio Ghibli music from our neighbours at Thorne Records, and left it at the bookshop as a surprise present to cheer up my recovery. How lovely is that?
#music #musique #VinylAlbum #VinylRecord #soundtrack #JoeHisaishi #StudioGhibli #film
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Thinking about the transition between the person I was before and after I first watched My Neighbor Totoro.
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El #Telediario de #La1 de #RTVE da la noticia del premio Princesa de Asturias para #StudioGhibli, solo mencionando Mi Vecino Totoro y El Viaje de Chihiro. Solo deben haber producido dos películas... 😒
La siguiente noticia es el #fascista de #reverte y su libro de memorias como #TercioDeFlandes, esto corresponsal.
Oportunidad perdida de haber puesto el célebre "Prefiero ser un cerdo a ser un fascista", de la inmortal Porco Rosso, en la noticia de Studio Ghibli. #politica
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El premio princesa de Asturias para #StudioGhibli. Me alegro.
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Always with me (from Spirited Away)
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There is another poll* choosing your favorite of 80’s animated movies. But there was no room for Studio Ghibli. So I ask you, casual reader, what’s your favorite Ghibli production from the 80’s?
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind predates the formation of Studio Ghibli, but all the major players are there.
Never heard of Studio Ghibli?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli* found here https://mstdn.social/@Jimijamflimflam/116506298401509690
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A proposito di #PorcoRosso, una delle cose piú tenere è vedere i piccoli errori di italiano nei testi disegnati, che sono evidentemente quelli originali, e sono per lo piú corretti, tranne qualche piccola concordanza qui e là (ma per poterli apprezzare in genere serve un fermo immagine, tranne per i piú vistosi, tipo il NON SI FO CREDITO nel cartello dietro la testa di Piccolo senior mentre conta i soldi di Porco per il nuovo aereo).
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Che film straordinario.
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Continuing with my rewatching of #StudioGhibli movies. This evening, The Wind Rises. Not as emotional or sweet as Kiki or Spirited Away, but some beautiful #art and #animation , especially the dream sequences, and a message about beautiful designs so often being co-opted for terrible purposes.
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #StudioGhibli #Anime #Japan Studio Ghibli Officially Announces New Extremely Limited Release http://dlvr.it/TS9mwV
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This evening's viewing - continuing the run of Studio Ghibli comfort viewing, with Kiki's Delivery Service.
#anime #animation #StudioGhibli #KikisDeliveryService #film #ClassicFilm #AnimatedFilm #1980sFilm
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It's a Studio Ghibli cloud day here today.
I'm expecting Kiki to fly by any minute.
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This is weird. I watched My Neighbour Totoro for the first time last night. The Letterboxd poster gives Satsuki Mei’s haircut?! What’s going on? In the scene in the film the poster is based on both girls are at the bus stop, with Mei hanging in her sister’s back. She’s gone in the poster and her haircut has been transplanted onto her sister. Very curious. #StudioGhibli #Films #Movies
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With tomorrow's hospital appointment (next phase of treatment to be discussed), I am, again, craving comfort viewing, so more Studio Ghibli, with the wonderful My Neighbor Totoro.
#anime #animation #AnimatedFilm #film #StudioGhibli #MyNeighborTotoro
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After today's confirmation that I'm to endure chemo as follow up to the surgery, I have a big need for comfort viewing tonight, so The Cat Returns it is.
Thank you, Ghibli...
#animation #film #TheCatReturns #StudioGhibli #2000sFilm #AnimatedFilm #Cats #Chats
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I just can't imagine watching Grave of the Fireflies back to back with My Neighbour Totoro. What an emotional cataclysm.
A fascinating intertextual analysis about two of Studio Ghibli's finest, originally screened as a double feature.
38 years ago, Studio Ghibli pulled off a Barbenheimer with two anime classics
https://www.polygon.com/my-neighbor-totoro-grave-of-the-fireflies-double-feature-studio-ghibli/#StudioGhibli #TonariNoTotoro #MyNeighborTotoro #GraveOfTheFireflies #DoubleFeature #Polygon
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Another book for #ICBD #InternationalChildrensBookDay is this essay collection edited by Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher on #Japan 's #StudioGhibli as #adaptations of children's books such as "Howl's Moving Castle", "Earthsea", "Anne of Green Gables" & more
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Chihiros Reise ins Zauberland a.k.a. Spirited Away ist so ein großartiger Film...
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After the disappointment of last night's viewing distraction (the dull, cliche-ridden Borderlands flick), tonight, ahead of what's coming, I understandably crave comfort viewing to wrap myself in, so a warm, old favourite it is: Miyazaki & Co's gorgeous Spirited Away.
#animation #film #StudioGhibli #SpiritedAway #ClassicFilm #AnimatedFilm #2000sFilm
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Fire up the VCR, it's the Star Wars of animated features! (What lol). Princess Mononoke is a Studio Ghibli masterpiece that's a must see, anime fan or not
#vhs #studioghibli #princessmononoke
