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Region：Japan
Type：Movie
English name：Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru / Night on the Galactic Railroad
Official name：銀河鉄道の夜
Chinese name：银河铁道之夜
Premiered：July 13, 1985
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Fantasy / Suspense / Story / Source novel
Original author：宮沢賢治
Director：杉井ギサブロー / はしもとなおと
Storyboard：杉井ギサブロー / 真下耕一 / 前田康成(現・こうせい) / 湯川高光 / 小林三男
Studios：Group TAC
Producers：朝日新聞社 / テレビ朝日 / 日本ヘラルド映画
Family：Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru
Rating：9+

Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru

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 railway.

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...

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Nov 30, 1984

EP1 銀河鉄道の夜

What is true happiness? For Giovanni, the answer is as far away as the stars. Mired in hardship, the young kitten faces problems that should be unknown to someone his age. At school, his classmates mock and ridicule him, and after the bell rings, Giovanni toils at a job to earn enough money for bread. Then at home, instead of being taken care of by his mother, he must take care of her. The sole bright spot is that of the Festival of Stars, where he hopes to run into Campanella, his only friend. When they finally meet up, however, it isn't while looking up at the stars, but rather traveling amongst them... as the Galactic Railroad whisks the two away for parts unknown!