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

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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