The Day I Bought a Star

7.8

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.

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Genzō Wakayama

Scopello (Voice)

Yo Oizumi

Maykinso (Voice)

Kyoka Suzuki

Ninya (Voice)

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Nona (Voice)

Art

Yoji Takeshige

Background Designer

Camera

Atsushi Okui

Director of Photography

Directing

Hayao Miyazaki

Director

Editing

Production

Toshio Suzuki

Producer

Sound

Norihiro Tsuru

Original Music Composer

Yuriko Nakamura

Original Music Composer

Writing

Hayao Miyazaki

Screenplay

Naohisa Inoue

Original Film Writer