BREAKING NEWS!!! A new Kikis Delivery Service Live Action teaser video streamed! Mainichi Shimbuns Mantan Web site posted a second teaser video for the live-action film of Eiko Kadonos fantasy novel series Kikis Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyūbin) on Tuesday. Unlike the first teaser, this trailer features actual film footage. Fūka Koshiba (Iki mo Dekinai Natsu) plays the title witch girl Kiki in the film. 16-year-old actor Ryōhei Hirota performs the critical role of Kikis friend Tombo. Co-starring with Koshiba and Hirota is Machiko Ono (Suzaku, Like Father, Like Son) as Osono, the owner of the bakery where Kiki works. Hiroshi Yamamoto plays Osonos baker husband Fukuo, and Miho Kanazawa plays a woman named Saki who visits the bakery. Rie Miyazawa (Oceans, Hana, Peony Pavilion) plays Kikis mother Kokiri, and Michitaka Tsutsui (Reunion, Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta, Shikoku) plays Kikis father Okino. Satoko Okudera (Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Princess and the Pilot) is writing the script for the film. Filming began on May 23 in a Tokyo studio, and it wrapped up in July. The film will open in Japan on March 1, 2014. The six novel volumes of Majo no Takkyūbin follow the coming of age of Kiki with her black cat Jiji. They have sold 1.8 million copies and have been translated into eight languages, including English, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, and Korean. Hayao Miyazaki directed Ghiblis famous anime film version, which adapted the first novel volume. Annick Press published the first novel with an English translation by Lynne E. Riggs in 2003. That same year, Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney released Ghiblis film on DVD in North America. Source: animenewsnetwork ~Mika
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:37:28 +0000
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