Night on the Galactic Railroad

Here's a film that wants to be both whimsical and melancholy. A lonely boy escapes his hardscrabble existence on a train trip through the cosmos. The phantasmagorical journey is certainly one way to avoid your problems.

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Gisaburō Sugii directed Night on the Galactic Railroad in 1985. See Gisaburō Sugii's full filmography, where to start with Gisaburō Sugii, or where to go after you've seen everything by Gisaburō Sugii.

Night on the Galactic Railroad was released in 1985 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 108 minutes.