Reblogged from hayao-miyazaki
Kiki’s Delivery Service is a 1989 Japanese animated fantasy film produced, written, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was the fourth theatrically released Studio Ghibli film.
Kiki’s Delivery Service is loosely based on Eiko Kadono’s novel of the same name, which is the first in a series published by Fukuinkan Shoten in 1985. According to Miyazaki the movie touches on the gulf that exists between independence and reliance in Japanese teenage girls. Going far beyond coming of age themes the work deals with the nature of creativity and talent, and the central difficulty every person faces in becoming themselves whether through luck, hard work or confidence: the inner film explores the same questions as the later Whisper of the Heart.