The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
2017 animated film directed by Masaaki Yuasa
The 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 written by Tomihiko Morimi and illustrated by Yusuke Nakamura, who also served as the film's original character designer. 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 heavily inspired by 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.
Plot
The film follows a night out for two university students: an unnamed woman – referred to as Kōhai (後輩; "Junior") throughout the film, and kurokami no otome (黒髪の乙女; "black-haired maiden") in the film's credits – and an unnamed man – referred to as Senpai (先輩; "Senior") in the film and its credits. The senpai plans to confess his romantic feelings for the kōhai to her that night, though circumstances keep them separated for a majority of the evening.
The kōhai meets a pervert, Tōdō, at a bar. She wins the admiration of two other patrons, Higuchi and Hanuki, after punching Tōdō when he makes an advance on her. Higuchi and Hanuki lead the kōhai in gate crashing strangers' parties, where she drinks an impressive amount of alcohol.
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