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Format: MOVIE
Episodes: 1
Episode length: 108 min
Status: Finished
Aired from: Jul 13, 1985
Until: Jul 13, 1985
Season: Summer 1985
Source: Other
Average score: 72%
Mean score: 73%
Popularity: 13,435
Favorites: 492
Studio: Group TAC
Producers: Asahi Shimbun, TV Asahi, Asmik Ace, Nippon Herald Eiga
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Romaji: Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru
English: Night on the Galactic Railroad
Native: 銀河鉄道の夜
Synonyms: Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo Train de nuit dans la voie lactée

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Night on the Galactic Railroad

★ 7.2 13,435 members

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)