Kadokawa streamed the film’s trailer for its Japanese release on January 26
Kadokawa began streaming trailers in October for the documentary Colorful na Majō ~ Kadono Eiko no Monogatari ga Umareru Kurashi ~ (Colorful Witch: Eiko Kadono’s Life From Where Stories Are Born) a film about author Eiko Kadono in Translation Kiki’s delivery service.
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The documentary follows Kadono’s daily life over the course of four years. Marina Miyagawa directed the film and actress Aoi Miyazaki (live-action NANA, Wolf Children) narrated.
The film will be shown at Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho on January 26.
The six volumes of Kadono’s Majo no Takkyūbin fantasy novel series tell the story of Kiki’s upbringing with her black cat Jiji. Kadono began the main novel series in 1985 and ended it in 2009. Kadono published a spin-off story revolving around the character Osono in 2014. She received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Children’s Writing in 2014. year 2019.
Hayao Miyazaki directed Studio Ghibli’s acclaimed 1989 animated film adaptation of the first novel. The late theater director Yukio Ninagawa also directed a musical adaptation from 1993 to 1996. The first two novels inspired a live-action film starring Fūka Koshiba in 1996. 2014, a stage play in London’s West End in 2016 and a new stage musical. in Tokyo and Osaka in 2017.
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 Studio Ghibli’s films on DVD in North America. Penguin Random House published a new English edition of the first novel with a translation by Emily Balistrieri in 2020.
Source: Kadokawa’s YouTube channel, account of the colorful film Majo
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