{"id":31073,"date":"2013-04-26T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T22:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=31073"},"modified":"2013-04-26T18:27:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T22:27:18","slug":"takashi-shimizu-to-direct-majo-no-takkyubin-live-action-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/takashi-shimizu-to-direct-majo-no-takkyubin-live-action-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Shimizu to Direct Majo no Takkyubin Live-Action Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fuuka_Koshiba_as_Kiki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fuuka_Koshiba_as_Kiki-450x285.jpg\" alt=\"Fuuka_Koshiba_as_Kiki\" width=\"450\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fuuka_Koshiba_as_Kiki-450x285.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fuuka_Koshiba_as_Kiki-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fuuka_Koshiba_as_Kiki.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sports Hochi and Sports Nippon newspapers have confirmed rumors that Ju-On &#038; Shock Labyrinth director Takashi Shimizu will direct a live-action feature film adaptation of Eiko Kadono&#8217;s Majo no Takkyubin (Witch&#8217;s Express Mail Service) children&#8217;s novel series. Kadono published six &#8220;Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service&#8221; novels from 1985-2009. The first novel was adaptated into an acclaimed Studio Ghibli anime film in 1989, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Shimizu&#8217;s film will star 16-year-old television actress Fuuka Koshiba appearing in her first film role. The live-action movie will adapt the first two novels. The film will tentatively premiere next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2013-04-23\/the-grudge-shimizu-helms-live-action-kiki-delivery-service\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sports Hochi and Sports Nippon newspapers have confirmed rumors that Ju-On &#038; Shock Labyrinth director Takashi Shimizu will direct a live-action feature film adaptation of Eiko Kadono&#8217;s Majo no Takkyubin (Witch&#8217;s Express Mail Service) children&#8217;s novel series. Kadono published six &#8220;Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service&#8221; novels from 1985-2009. The first novel was adaptated into an acclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31075,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073\/revisions\/31075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}