The Night of Taneyamagahara

The Night of Taneyamagahara
Cover of Taneyamagahara no Yoru DVD
Directed byKazuo Oga
Screenplay byKazuo Oga
Based onThe Night of Taneyamagahara
by Kenji Miyazawa
Music byEnsemble Planeta
Production
company
Distributed byBuena Vista Home Entertainment Japan
Running time
27 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.