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Title (English) Night on the Galactic Railroad
Title (Japanese) Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru
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Fantasy Novel

Notes Movie, 110 mins.
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Synopsis
Review A strange story about cats. Giovanni is a cat/boy who looks after his sick mother. He gets teased at school because his father has been away for a long time, perhaps on an illegal otter hunt. One night he gets on the Galactic Railroad and takes a trip to the stars of the Milky Way, along with his friend Campanella.
The designs have an Italian flavour and the intertitles appear to be in Italian as well as Japanese. The movie is replete with strange symbolism; the other people on the train are evidently dead, but other symbols are harder to interpret. Original story by Kenji Miyazawa, a poet and writer of the early 20th century. A long and slow-moving movie, but on balance worth the effort.
Credits Dir: Gisaburo Sugii
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Release US:DVD, US:VHS
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Date 1985
Production Hiroshi Masumura, Asahi, Herald, Tac
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Animation
References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
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