The Night of Taneyamagahara (2006)
- Original title
- 種山ヶ原の夜
- Directed by
- Kazuo Oga
- Genre
- fantasy film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 27 min
- Rating
- 5.1 of 10 from 11 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A short anime adapts a Kenji Miyazawa story about rural life in the Taneyamagahara region. It follows characters moving through the night in a landscape of fields and forests.
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What happens
The Night of Taneyamagahara (種山ヶ原の夜, Taneyamagahara no Yoru) is a short anime film directed by Kazuo Oga and released by Studio Ghibli. A DVD version was released for Japan on July 7, 2006. It is based on a short story of the same name by Kenji Miyazawa. This was a personal film for director Oga, as he cited how he was inspired after reading a collection of Miyazawa's works after working on Princess Mononoke (1997). A special screening was held from February 2 to 7, 2010 during A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Painted Totoro's Forest at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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