Kiki's Delivery Service - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Kiki's Delivery Service"
魔女の宅急便 (1989)
Timing: 1:43 (103 min)
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Film crew

Director

Producer

Eiko Tanaka
Producer

Executive Producer

Morihisa Takagi
Executive Producer
Mikihiko Tsuzuki
Executive Producer

Tooru Hara

Tooru Hara
Executive Producer

Editor

Art Direction

Hiroshi Ohno
Art Direction

Production Design

Hinoshi Ono
Production Design

Original Music Composer

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Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi
Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Juro Sugimura
Director of Photography

Character Designer

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Katsuya Kondo

Katsuya Kondo
Character Designer

Animation Supervisor

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Yoshifumi Kondo

Yoshifumi Kondo
Animation Supervisor

Sound Mixer

Shuji Inoue
Sound Mixer

Production Manager

Eiko Tanaka
Production Manager

Screenplay

Novel

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Eiko Kadono
Novel

Dialogue Editor

Fujio Yamada
Dialogue Editor

Assistant Editor

Hiroshi Adachi
Assistant Editor

Special Effects

Kaoru Tanifuji
Special Effects

Assistant Director

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Sunao Katabuchi

Sunao Katabuchi
Assistant Director

Other

Production Assistant

Hiroyuki Ito
Production Assistant
Yuji Kitazawa
Production Assistant
Tomoaki Nishigiri
Production Assistant
Toshitaka Henmi
Production Assistant

Animation Director

Shinji Otsuka
Animation Director
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Yoshifumi Kondo

Yoshifumi Kondo
Animation Director
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Katsuya Kondo

Katsuya Kondo
Animation Director

Color Designer

Background Designer

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Kazuo Oga

Kazuo Oga
Background Designer
Miyuki Kudo
Background Designer
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Kenji Kamiyama

Kenji Kamiyama
Background Designer
Toshiharu Mizutani
Background Designer
Yuji Ikehata
Background Designer
Yuko Matsuura
Background Designer
Ken Tokushige
Background Designer
Midori Chiba
Background Designer
Hidetoshi Kaneko
Background Designer
Kiyoko Kanno
Background Designer
Yutaka Ito
Background Designer
Kazuo Ebisawa
Background Designer
Yoko Nagashima
Background Designer
Kyoko Naganawa
Background Designer
Kiyomi Oota
Background Designer
Kazuhiro Kinoshita
Background Designer
Satoshi Kuroda
Background Designer
Kumiko Ono
Background Designer

Sound Effects

Kazutoshi Sato
Sound Effects

Key Animation

Makiko Futaki
Key Animation
Atsuko Fukushima
Key Animation
Hiroshi Watanabe
Key Animation
Megumi Kagawa
Key Animation
Sachiko Sugino
Key Animation
Hiroomi Yamakawa
Key Animation
Masahiro Sekino
Key Animation
Toshio Kawaguchi
Key Animation
Noriko Moritomo
Key Animation
Masako Shinohara
Key Animation
Atsuko Otani
Key Animation
Chie Uratani
Key Animation
Natsuyo Yasuda
Key Animation
Toshiya Niidome
Key Animation
Yukiyoshi Hane
Key Animation
Akiko Hasegawa
Key Animation
Atsuko Tanaka
Key Animation

Sound Director

Naoko Asari

Naoko Asari
Sound Director

Compositing Artist

Kenji Akazawa
Compositing Artist
Hiroshi Tamura
Compositing Artist
Hiroaki Edamitsu
Compositing Artist
Satoshi Arakawa
Compositing Artist
Josaku Nishiyama
Compositing Artist
Yasunori Hayama
Compositing Artist
Tohru Kobayashi
Compositing Artist
Katsuya Kozutsumi
Compositing Artist
Yasuhiro Shizimu
Compositing Artist

Theme Song Performance

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Yumi Matsutoya

Yumi Matsutoya
Theme Song Performance

Music Director

Coordinating Producer

Yoko Umemura
Coordinating Producer

What's left behind the scenes

  • Eiko Kadono's book is a collection of separate stories about Kiki's adventures. When Hayao Miyazaki made significant changes to the plot to create a cohesive and consistent screenplay, Kadono became angry and refused to allow a film adaptation. She had to be persuaded for a long time.
  • Initially, the film was planned to be 60 minutes long.
  • The name of Osono's bakery, “Guchokipanya,” is a play on words consisting of two parts: “guchokipa,” the famous rock-paper-scissors game, and “pan’ya,” meaning bakery.
  • While working on the film, Hayao Miyazaki and his artists traveled to Sweden to thoroughly research the landscapes for the film. The photographs they took in Stockholm and Visby form the main background of the fictional city of Koriko. The city also contains elements of Lisbon, Paris, San Francisco, and Milan.
  • When Kiki first arrives in the city, she crashes into a bus with the inscription Studio Ghibli.
  • Ursula's painting is called “The Ship Sailing Over the Rainbow” and was mostly drawn by students from a school for children with intellectual disabilities.
  • This cartoon used 462 colors.
  • In the Spanish version of the cartoon, Kiki was renamed Niki, and accordingly, the cartoon was titled: “Nicky la aprendiz de bruja,” which means “Niki – the young witch apprentice.” This was justified by the fact that the word “kiki” in the local slang means “quick sex.”
  • The creation of this film used 67,317 hand-drawn frames.
  • The idea for the book was inspired by an epiphany of the founder of the Yamato Transport transport company, who once created a corporate logo with a cat and black kitten, and the advertising slogan “Yamato’s Black Cat Witch Delivery Service.” Yamato Transport sponsored the production of the film.
  • In the Japanese version, after a series of events, Jiji permanently loses the ability to communicate with Kiki, while in one of the English dubs at the very end of the film, it can be understood that the cat and Kiki have begun to understand each other again.
  • The bakery 'Guchokipanya's' name is a play on words consisting of two parts: 'guchokipa' – the famous rock-paper-scissors game, and 'pan’ya' – bakery.
  • In the Spanish version of the cartoon, Kiki was renamed Niki, and accordingly, the cartoon was titled: 'Nicky la aprendiz de bruja,' which means 'Niki – the young witch apprentice.' This was justified by the fact that the word 'kiki' in the local slang means 'quick sex.'
  • The idea for the book was inspired by the insight of Yamato Unyu, the founder of the Yamato Transport company, who created a corporate logo with a cat and black kitten and the advertising slogan 'The Witch's Black Cat Delivery Service.' Yamato Transport sponsored the film's production.
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