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The Day I Bought a Star

2006-01-03
7.8
ja 16m
AnimationFantasy
The short film is about a boy who lives and works on a farm. One day when going to sell vegetables at a market, his cart breaks down. Two strangers, a frog and a mole, offer him a strange seed in exchange for the vegetables. The boy accepts and finds that the seed grows into a miniature planet. It continues growing as he tends to it, forming an atmosphere, weather systems and life. After being taken back to the city, he meets the stranger who sold the seed to him, and they release the planet into a galaxy of similar planets, where it will grow for years until becoming a real planet.

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Screenplay

Hayao Miyazaki

Original Film Writer

Naohisa Inoue

Key Animation

Masako Sato

Key Animation

Katsutoshi Nakamura

Key Animation

Shinichiro Yamada

space travel short film

Status

Released

Countries

  • Japan

Companies

  • Studio Ghibli