[7][8] It stars the voices of Shun Oguri as Budori Gusuko with Shioli Kutsuna, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Hayashiya Shōzō, Ryūzō Hayashi, Tamiyo Kusakari and Akira Emoto.

[9] Like Night on the Galactic Railroad before it, the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic cats based on Hiroshi Masumura's manga adaptation of the novel.

The previous adaptation was released in 1994 as Kyōdō Eiga Zenkoku Keiretsu Kaigi, but that one features human characters instead.

[10] North American anime distributor Sentai Filmworks have licensed the film for digital and home video release.

When Budori gets up to check on the situation, he finds his mother standing by an open door with the winter storm coming in, insinuating that his father ran off into the woods.

As Budori works on making a meal out of leaves for him and his sister, a nameless kidnapper comes and takes Neri away.

He is woken up from this dream world and arrives at the city where he searches for the university where Professor Kubo, a scientist that wrote the books that Budori studied while on the farm, teaches.

He comes up with the idea to make the volcano erupt, in order to send enough carbon gas to warm up the air, causing the cold weather to stop.

The kidnapper takes Budori to the volcano, where a sudden flash of light bursts and illuminates the surrounding area.

There were about twenty-four performers in the creation of the original soundtrack for the film, which included Masaaki Goka, Hokuto Oka, Ryota Komatsu, Yuya Minorikawa, among others.