Alternative titles: Synonyms: Ginga Tetsudou no YoruJapanese: 銀河鉄道の夜
Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished airing
Airdate: 13 Jul, 1985 to 00 00, 0000
Genres: Mystery, Drama, Fantasy, Historical
Duration: 01:45:00 per episode
Rating: G - All Ages
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 as depicted as cats, presumably to avoid the problems of animating humans.
(from AniDB)
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Giovanni Main | Mayumi Tanaka Japanese Veronica Taylor English |
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Campanella Main | Chika Sakamoto Japanese Crispin Freeman English |
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Osamu Kobayashi Storyboard |
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Koichi Mashimo Storyboard |
