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The Day I Bought a Star (2006) [N/A]

Release Date:
January 3, 2006

Original Title:
星をかった日

Alternate Titles:
Hoshi wo katta hi

Genres:
Animation | Fantasy

Production Companies:
Studio Ghibli

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 16

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Background Designer:
Yoji Takeshige

Color Designer:
Michiyo Yasuda

Director:
Hayao Miyazaki

Director of Photography:
Atsushi Okui

Editor:
Takeshi Seyama

Key Animation:
Kenichi Yamada
Takeshi Inamura
Shunsuke Hirota
Fumie Konno
Moyo Takahashi
Katsutoshi Nakamura
Masako Sato
Shinichiro Yamada
Sachiko Sugino

Original Film Writer:
Naohisa Inoue

Original Music Composer:
Norihiro Tsuru
Yuriko Nakamura

Producer:
Toshio Suzuki

Screenplay:
Hayao Miyazaki

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