Night on the Galactic Railroad
by Gisaburo Sugii
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Actor: Ayumi Ishijo, Chika Sakamoto, Junko Hori, Kaori Nakahara, Mayumi TanakaDirector: Gisaburo Sugii
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Central Park Media
Movie Reviews of Night on the Galactic Railroad
Movie Review: What's "Polaris" in Esperanto?
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh so slowly did this film coax a tear from each my eyes. Don't believe twits who either couldn't finish it or (gasp) see it as a christian fable, they're obviously impatient christians! (as far as i know, the author was a confirmed buddhist...)
"In Chinese mythology, the constellation Cygnus is the site of the once-a-year magpie bridge which connects the lovers Niu Lang and Zhi Nu (see Qi Xi)." -from Wikipedia
Summary of Night on the Galactic Railroad
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.Filmmaker Gisaburo Sugii's long career as an animator, director, executive director, and screenwriter began on The White Snake Enchantress, the first postwar Japanese feature. He has worked on projects ranging from the mildly erotic Cleopatra, Queen of Sex (1970) to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy to a feature adaptation of the 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji. In the U.S. he's best known as the director of the movie version of the popular video game Street Fighter II. The contrast between the deadly battles of Street Fighter and the almost hypnotic pace of Galactic Railroad is striking. --Charles Solomon
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