Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Japanese夜は短し歩けよ乙女
Literal meaningThe night is short, so walk on, maiden
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnYoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome
Directed byMasaaki Yuasa
Screenplay byMakoto Ueda
Based onThe Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
by Tomihiko Morimi
Produced byNoriko Ozaki
Jūnosuke Itō
Starring
Edited byAkari Saitō
Music byMichiru Ōshima
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • April 7, 2017 (2017-04-07)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥530 million (Japan)

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (Japanese: 夜は短し歩けよ乙女, Hepburn: Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome) is a 2017 Japanese animated romantic comedy film directed by Masaaki Yuasa. The film is based on the 2006 novel The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl written by Tomihiko Morimi and illustrated by Yusuke Nakamura, who also served as the film's original character designer. The film was released in North America as The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, with a leading article added, but in other English-speaking regions without one. It has been awarded the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.

The film is a spiritual sequel to The Tatami Galaxy, also based on a novel written by Morimi and directed by Yuasa. Though both works share a Kyoto University setting and some characters, the plotlines are largely unrelated.