Robot on the Road

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Hiroyuki Okiura directs. Emi Tsujita cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 2Released 11 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Editor Emi Tsujita shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 5Megumi Hayashibara and Koichi Yamadera carry the top of the cast.
• 6Marketing tagline: "The feeling some encounter and farewell from that journey.".
• 7IMDB entry: tt6114460 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 8Only 44 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing

Emi Tsujita

Runtime

10 min · 0h 10m

Status

Released

Original language

JA

IMDB

Robot on the Road (2015) ↗

Also by

Hiroyuki Okiura

• 
  Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

  1999 · ★ 7.4
• 
  A Letter to Momo

  2012 · ★ 7.4
• 
  Japan Animator Expo

  2014 · ★ 7.1

Production companies

Who made it

• 

  khara

  JP

• NI

  Nihon Animator Mihonichi

Key crew

• Original StoryHiroyuki Okiura
• Animation DirectorTakeshi Honda
• Animation DirectorHiroyuki Okiura
• ProducerTomoyuki Ogata
• EditorEmi Tsujita
• Key AnimationHiroyuki Okiura
• Executive ProducerHideaki Anno

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• robot

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical2015-10-02

Also known as

International titles

• Robot on the RoadUS
• Tabi no Robo KaraJP
• Robot on the RoadDE