Midnight Pulp has added a really interesting title worth checking out on the Amazon Prime Video service with the Night on the Galactic Railroad feature. Their streaming of it is definitely nicely done as the recent rescue from Discotek Media has the streaming available with the English language dub. The streaming rights for it here has it available to watch for free with Prime but you can also rent it without for $1.99 or buy it for $7.99 in standard definition.
Check out our Thirty Years Later retrospective that includes this property.
Plot Concept: 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 and fantasy blur aboard the train, and its travels across the light-years sometimes suggests the journey through life. The characters as depicted as cats, presumably to avoid the problems of animating humans.
