Night on the Galactic Railroad
Anime English Name: Night on the Galactic Railroad
Anime Native Name: 銀河鉄道の夜
Status: N/A
Episode Count: 1
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Release Date: 1985
Duration: 108 mins
Country: JP
Average Score: 72%
Description
Based on a short story by the popular children’s writer Kenji Miyazawa, Galactic Railroad offers viewers a slow-paced, dreamlike journey through space and time. When Giovanni, a lonely boy in a hill town, goes to get milk for his ailing mother, he finds himself crossing the Milky Way on a faster-than-light steam railroad. The stations he visits in various constellations, like the planets explored by St. Exupery’s Little Prince, offer curious adventures and an assortment of human "types." Reality and fantasy blur aboard the train, and its travels across the light-years sometimes suggests the journey through life. The characters are depicted as cats, presumably to avoid the problems of animating humans.
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Main Staff
Gisaburou Sugii
Role: Director
Kenji Miyazawa
Role: Original Creator
Crispin Freeman
Role: Script (English)
Kouichi Mashimo
Role: Storyboard