* Based on the novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago.
Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtainable object of desire: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another,…
Hosono Haruomi
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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 railway. The stations he visits in various constellations, like the planets explored by St.…