The Day I Bought a Star

The Day I Bought a Star

16 mins | Animation, Fantasy | Jan. 3, 2006

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.

The Day I Bought a Star

16 mins | Animation, Fantasy | Jan. 3, 2006

The Day I Bought a Star
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.
IMDb rating 8.2
Producers Studio Ghibli
Original title 星をかった日
Directors Hayao Miyazaki
Writers Naohisa Inoue, Hayao Miyazaki

Cast

Genzô Wakayama

as Scopello (Voice)

Yo Oizumi

as Maykinso (Voice)

Kyoka Suzuki

as Ninya (Voice)

Ryunosuke Kamiki

as Nona (Voice)