Toei Company
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Walt Disney)
A 13-year-old witch leaves home for a year to complete her training. She flies by broomstick, with her pet/familiar spirit black cat, in search of city she can call her own. She ends up in provincial town where she finds a friendly baker who offers her a job and a place to stay. She makes no attempt to hide her powers, and starts up her own business making deliveries on her broomstick. Meanwhile, she is pursued by a nerdy aviation enthusiast, whom she initially dislikes but gradually warms up to. Her deliveries take her on various adventures, including the cabin of a free-spirited artist. Later, she begins to lose her powers, but the artist tells her to look inside herself. When her aviation suitor is caught up in a disaster involving a dirigible, she must find her powers to save him. Another cute Miyazaki film inexplicably heralded as a masterpiece, I found it episodic, simplistic and completely predictable, even the animation is only so-so.
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