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The Night of Taneyamagahara | |
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![]() Cover of Taneyamagahara no Yoru DVD. | |
Directed by | Kazuo Oga |
Screenplay by | Kazuo Oga |
Based on | The Night of Taneyamagahara by Kenji Miyazawa |
Music by | Ensemble Planeta |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan |
Running time | 27 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
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.