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A part in a 2002 play consisting of various works by Kenji, The Account of Kenji Island Exploration (賢治島探検記, Kenji-tō Tankenki), written by Yutaka Narui for a theatrical company Caramelbox, features the story by the name of Night on the Light Speed Galactic Railroad (光速銀河鉄道の夜, Kōsoku Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru). It ...
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.
Giovanni's Island (ジョバンニの島, Joban'ni no Shima) is a 2014 Japanese animated historical drama film directed by Mizuho Nishikubo and produced by Production I.G and co-produced and presented by the Japan Association of Music Enterprises. [1]
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.
Gisaburō Sugii (杉井ギサブロー or 杉井儀三郎, Sugii Gisaburō, born August 20, 1940) is a Japanese anime director and Nihonga artist. He is best known for his work as director of the Touch series, the movie adaptation of the Arashi no Yoru ni children's book series, and the movie Night on the Galactic Railroad.
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 ...
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