Episodes

Episode 1

Overview

Based on a short story by the popular children’s writer Kenji Miyazawa, Galactic Railroad offers viewers 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 railroad. 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...

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Cast

Mayumi Tanaka

Giovanni

Crispin Freeman

Campanella

Junko Hori

Zanelli

Miyuki Ichijou

Marceau

Yoshie Shimamura

Giovanni no Haha

Ryuuji Saikachi

Zakkaya no Shujin

Reiko Niimura

Rouba

Ryuunosuke Kaneda

Sensei Gakusha

Chikao Ootsuka

Toritori

Fujio Tokita

Toudaimori

Takeshi Aono

Musengishi

Hidehiro Kikuchi

Seinen