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Night on the Galactic Railroad (movie)

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©1985 Asahi Group/Herald Group/TAC.


Alternative title:
Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru (Japanese)
Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo
銀河鉄道の夜 (Japanese)
Genres: drama, fantasy
Themes: historical
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: On the night of a festival, Giovanni embarks on a train that takes him across the Milky Way. Joining him in this trip is his friend Campanella. Together they meet peculiar passengers as they travel to an uncertain destination.
User Ratings: 98 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 19 votes (sub:15, ?:2, dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 19 votes (sub:15, ?:2, dub:2)
 Very good: 23 votes (sub:21, dub:2)
 Good: 11 votes (sub:6, dub:5)
 Decent: 11 votes (dub:6, sub:4, raw:1)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Not really good: 5 votes (sub:4, Spa.sub:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 182 users, rank: #1822
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.531 (Very good-.46), std. dev.: 2.2506, rank: #882
Weighted mean: 7.529 (Very good-.47), rank: #785 (seen all: 7.50 / seen some: 10.00 / won't finish: 8.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.527 (Very good-.47), rank: #592
Running time: 105 minutes
Vintage: 1985
Premiere date:
1985-07-13 (Japan)
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Related releases:
    Night on the Galactic Railroad (DVD) 2001-10-09

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Gisaburô Sugii

Screenplay: Minoru Betsuyaku

Storyboard:
Gisaburô Sugii
Koichi Mashimo
Mitsuo Kobayashi
Osamu Kobayashi
Takamitsu Yukawa
Takaya Mizutani
Tameo Kohanawa
Yasunari Maeda

Original Manga: Hiroshi Masumura

Character Design: Takao Kodama

Art director: Mihoko Magoori

Original Novel: Kenji Miyazawa

Producer:
Atsumi Tashiro
Masato Hara

Animation: Marisuke Eguchi

In-Between Animation:
Akihiko Mamashita
Atsushi Ishiguro
Fumio Sasaki
Hideki Araki
Hiroyuki Takagi
Jun Kiguchi
Kanae Koyanagi
Machiko Oosone
Mahiro Hasegawa
Miyuki Ishimaru
Nobuyuki Tokinaga
Norifumi Okuyama
Noriko Yamada
Seiji Nomura
Tachiko Horie
Takanobu Katada
Tomiko Yamamoto
Yayoi Tozuka
Yukiko Itou
Yukio Okano
Yumi Daikuu
Yuriko Shiojima

Key Animation:
Hidekazu Ohara
Kaoru Nakajima
Kazushige Yusa
Kazuyuki Kobayashi
Makiko Futaki
Michiyo Sakurai
Nobuko Abe
Sayuri Matsumoto
Takamitsu Yukawa
Takaya Ono
Tamotsu Tanaka
Tsukasa Abe
Tsukasa Tannai
Yasuhiro Nakura
Yasunari Maeda
Yukiya Senda
Yutaka Oka

Music Composition: Haruomi Hosono

Photography: Tsuneo Maeda

Stage Design: Minoru Aoki

 

Chika Sakamoto as Campanella

Mayumi Tanaka as Giovanni

Akihiro Kikuchi as Young Man

Fujio Tokita as Lighthouse Keeper

Furiko Fuchizaki as Tadashi

Junko Hori as Zanelli

Kae Shimamura as Giovanni's Mother

Kaori Nakahara as Kaoru

Miyuki Ichijou as Marceau

Ozuka Kaneo as Birdcatcher

Reiko Aramura as Old Woman

Ryounosuke Kaneda as Teacher/Scholar

Ryuuji Enji as Store Owner

Seiji Kurazaki as Milkman

Takeshi Aono as Wireless Operator

Tatsuyuki Niuchi as Campanella's Father

Tetsuya Kaji as Conductor

Japanese companies 

In-Between Animation:
AIC
Asia-Do
Doumu
SHAFT
Studio Gallop

Production:
Group TAC
Nippon Herald

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director: Arlen Tarlofsky

Executive producer: John O'Donnell

Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

ADR Engineer: Jim Regan

Dubbing supervisor: Tom Wayland

Script Adaptation:
Crispin Freeman
Neil Nadelman

Crispin Freeman as Campanella

Veronica Taylor as Giovanni

Amy Birnbaum as Tadashi

David Moo as Wireless Operator

Eric Schussler as Father

Eric Stuart as Lighthouse Keeper

Gil Ramsee as Young Man

Greg Wolfe as Teacher

Lisa Ortiz as Kaoru

Pete Zarustica as
Birdcatcher
Zanelli

Rachael Lillis as
Dairy Woman
Marceau

Scott Cargle as Conductor

English companies 

Broadcaster: SPACE

Licensed by: Central Park Media

Recording Studio: Mercury Productions

Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

Translation: Studio Nemo

 
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