The Day I Bought a Star

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Genzô Wakayama

Scopello (Voice)

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Yo Oizumi

Maykinso (Voice)

Age : 51 | Popularity : 8%

Kyoka Suzuki

Ninya (Voice)

Age : 55 | Popularity : 7%

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Nona (Voice)

Age : 30 | Popularity : 29%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Hayao Miyazaki
	Writer	Naohisa Inoue
Directing	Director	Hayao Miyazaki
Production	Producer	Toshio Suzuki
Camera	Director of Photography	Atsushi Okui
Editing	Editor	Takeshi Seyama
Art	Background Designer	Yoji Takeshige
Visual Effects	Key Animation	Takeshi Inamura Shunsuke Hirota Sachiko Sugino Kenichi Yamada Katsutoshi Nakamura Fumie Konno Masako Sato Moyo Takahashi Shinichiro Yamada
	Color Designer	Michiyo Yasuda
Sound	Original Music Composer	Norihiro Tsuru Yuriko Nakamura
Department	Role	Name

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