Night on the Galactic Railroad
Night on the Galactic Railroad
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Night on the Galactic Railroad

Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru

銀河鉄道の夜

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SCORE

7.2

out of 10

STATUS

finished

1985

EPISODES

1

108 min each

POPULARITY

#12804

468 favorites

Synopsis

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. (Source: AniDB)

Information

Format

MOVIE

Episode Duration

108 min

Season

SUMMER 1985

Source

OTHER

Start Date

Jul 13, 1985

End Date

Jul 13, 1985

Country

JP

Genres

DramaFantasyMystery

Studios

Main

Group TAC

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