Production Video for Live-Action Kiki’s Delivery Service

A production video for the forthcoming live-action Kiki’s Delivery Service is now on the internet and it shows the set and cast and director at work.

The film is the second movie adaptation of Eiko Kadono’s 1985 novel. Anime fans will be well aware that the first movie adaptation in animated form from Studio Ghibli in 1989. Well this version is directed by J-horror maestro Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On: The Curse, Marebito) and it is written by Satoko Okudera (The Wolf Children). Kiki  is played by former figure-skater Fuka Koshibe and she will be seen in Japanese theatres sometime in the spring of 2014.

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I'm a long-time anime and Japanese film and culture fan who has lived in the country and is studying Japanese in an effort to become fluent. I write about films, anime, and work on various things.

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