Japan Synopsis
星をかった日
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 2005–2007 Japan Window
364 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. The Day I Bought a Star sits at position #119.
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The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Day I Bought a Star premiered. 1020 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,514 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (67th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,124 of 2,532 (top 44%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Studio Ghibli |
| Runtime | 16m |
| Release Date | January 3, 2006 |
| IMDb | tt0756217 |