“Night Train was the entry film of Japanese filmmaker Aya Kawazoe for the Tokyo University of Arts, where she was admitted and studied cinema under the supervision of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Her first-grade film Humongous! (2020) got selected for the Critics’ Week in Cannes. Night Train is the adaptation of a homonymous comic book by Gin Miyoshi. Although the style of the book is quite simple, the filmmaker's mise-en-scène is phantasmatic; the protagonist is a girl who looks like a ghost floating between dream and reality. The texture of the film and its lighting create experimental and cinematographic poetry. Aya Kawazoe's cinema goes beyond the context of the story and the characters’ dialogues, concentrating primarily on the image and the sound. She finally asks the fundamental question: What is cinema?” — Nanako Tsukidate