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Night on the Galactic Railroad is the first play the titular character of the manga Kasane performs in by stealing her friend's face for one night, when she's a high school student. The play and the character's stellar performance as Giovanni will impact future developments and be referenced several times in the story afterwards.
Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru, alternately Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo in Esperanto) is a 1985 Japanese anime film directed by Gisaburo Sugii, based on the 1934 fantasy novel of the same name by Kenji Miyazawa. The film's screenplay was written by Minoru Betsuyaku.
As in the Night on the Galactic Railroad anime, the main characters are depicted as cats. The Japanese culture and lifestyle television show Begin Japanology aired on NHK World featured a full episode on Miyazawa Kenji in 2008. The JR train SL Ginga (SL銀河, Esueru Ginga) was restored with inspiration from and named in honor of his work in ...
Hiroshi Masumura (Japanese: ますむらひろし, Hepburn: Masumura Hiroshi, born October 23, 1952) [1] is a Japanese manga artist.He is best known for his adaptations of Kenji Miyazawa's children novels, including his work on the anime film Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985), and for several manga series set in the fantasy universe Atagoul.
Night on the Galactic Railroad, a Japanese novel by Kenji Miyazawa, written around 1927; Galaxy Express 999, a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, and the anime based on it; The Galaxy Railways, a sci-fi anime series produced by Leiji Matsumoto; Iwate Ginga Railway Line, a railway line running between Iwate and Aomori Prefectures, in Japan
In June 2020, it was announced the manga would receive a stage play adaptation in 2022 titled Act-Age: Night on the Galactic Railroad (アクタージュ act-age～銀河鉄道の夜～). The play would be produced by Horipro, and directed and written by Shū Matsui. A "remote audition" for the role of the protagonist Kei Yonagi would have been ...
Hoshi Meguri no Uta (星巡りの歌, lit. ' Song of the Pilgrimage of the Stars ') is a piece of music composed in the pentatonic scale by Miyazawa Kenji in 1918. [1] It is featured in his 1934 novel Night on the Galactic Railroad as well as its 1985 animated adaptation, where it appears in a music box arrangement by Shimizu Osamu and Haruomi Hosono.
Like Night on the Galactic Railroad before it, the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic cats based on Hiroshi Masumura's manga adaptation of the novel. It is the second animated film adaptation of the story.