

Score
7.2 / 10
Status
Finished Airing
Episodes
1
Studio
Group TAC
Also known as 銀河鉄道の夜 | Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru
7.2/10
Community score
#2748
Rank
30.5K
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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)
Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru is based on the 1934 classic children's story by the esteemed author Kenji Miyazawa. The movie won the Oofuji Noburou Award at the Mainichi Film Awards in 1985.

Campanella
Main
Voice: Freeman, Crispin (English)

Giovanni
Main
Voice: Tanaka, Mayumi (Japanese)

Campanella's Father
Supporting
Voice: Naya, Gorou (Japanese)

Conductor
Supporting
Voice: Kaji, Tetsuya (Japanese)

Gakusha
Supporting
Voice: Wolfe, Gregory (English)

General Store Owner
Supporting
Voice: Saikachi, Ryuuji (Japanese)

Kaoru
Supporting
Voice: Ortiz, Lisa (English)

Marceau
Supporting
Voice: Ichijou, Miyuki (Japanese)

Tashiro, Atsumi
Producer, Sound Director

Sugii, Gisaburou
Director, Storyboard

Freeman, Crispin
Script

Kobayashi, Osamu
Storyboard

Kohanawa, Tameo
Storyboard

Maeda, Kousei
Storyboard, Key Animation
English title
Night on the Galactic Railroad
Romaji title
Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru
Japanese title
銀河鉄道の夜
Synonyms
Unknown
Main studio
Group TAC
Producers
Unknown
Licensors
Central Park Media, Discotek Media
Japanese title
銀河鉄道の夜