The Day I Bought a Star

2006

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.

Rating

7.8
14 votes

Popularity

0.5816

Origin & Countries

JP | ja | Japan

Production

Studio Ghibli

Runtime

16 min.

Status

Released

Release: 1/3/2006

Credits

The Day I Bought a Star

Hayao MiyazakiDirector

The Day I Bought a Star

Genzô WakayamaScopello (Voice)

The Day I Bought a Star

Yo OizumiMaykinso (Voice)

The Day I Bought a Star

Kyoka SuzukiNinya (Voice)

The Day I Bought a Star

Ryunosuke KamikiNona (Voice)

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