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Hoshi o Katta Hi (星をかった日, lit. ' The Day I Bought a Star ') is a Japanese animated short film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and released January 3, 2006. It was produced by Toshio Suzuki for Studio Ghibli for their exclusive use in the Saturn Theatre at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo.
Genres: science fiction. find similar anime based on genres. Plot Summary: A young boy, tired of the city, escapes into the country. When trying to bring vegetables to the market to sell, his cart...
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The Windy Day
Nona, a disaffected young boy, flees the city to escape working at the "Time Bureau", a place that oversees time. He then wanders the desert until he meets Niinya, a witch, who offers him a new life working at her farm. One blustery Autumn day, on the way to the market to sell some vegetables he has grown, a boy named Nona meets two strange men, Scopello and Makinso, traveling together. They are next to a train that seems to have suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere (there are no tracks)...
Nona's Star
The boy lives in a house in the middle of where that belongs to Niinya. Niinya usually leaves her house at dusk and returns in the morning, and never bothers Nona. He gets up early in the morning goes to his garden, and spends most of the day there. Nona may have parents and go to school, but we are never given any information on this. We can only assume that, on order to be able to return home, Nona has to uncover some sort of personal secret. When the light of the moon shines through the wi...
Development
In the early 90's, Hayao Miyazaki met Naohisa Inoue after seeing his paintings of the fantasy world called Iblard. Miyazaki liked his work so much that in 1994, Inoue was invited to work on Whisper of the Heart. "The film featured a number of imaginary sequences set in Iblard, starring Baron and Shizuku. "Iblard has highly original light, color, and stories behind it; it's a sparkling and glowing world where what appear to be clouds and rocks and plants are all vaguely mixed together, where e...
Production
Years would pass, and both Inoue and Miyazaki became busy with their careers. "We both became busy, and with one thing or another, time just kept slipping by. Inoue-san kept on, not drawing his children's book, and I kept on, only occasionally recalling what we had talked about," said Miyazaki. Inoue had nearly given up, when shortly after Howl's Moving Castle completed production, Miyazaki gave him a call. Miyazaki explained there was a gap in Ghibli's production schedule, and that he had be...
Connection to Howl's Moving Castle
While the film has nothing to do with Howl's Moving Castle, several similarities were noted by its producer, Toshio Suzuki and famed director Mamoru Oshii during the 2012 live broadcast on Nico Nico called Mamoru Oshii's Live Broadcast That Makes Half the World Angry. Suzuki:Did you see that? The Day I Bought a Star. Oshii:"The Day I Bought a Star?" Suzuki:Have you seen it? The one at the museum. Oshii:Yeah. Suzuki:Then I'll show you next time. We did a side story unusually which featured How...
The film was first screened at the Saturn Theatre, located in the basement of the Ghibli Museum.A subtitled version is available for hearing impaired viewers.Hoshi o Katta Hi on Anime News NetworkHoshi o Katta Hi at the Internet Movie DatabaseKiki's Delivery Service ( Japanese: 魔女の宅急便, Hepburn: Majo no Takkyūbin, lit. 'Witch's Express Home Delivery') is a 1989 Japanese animated fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Eiko Kadono.
Porco Rosso (Japanese: 紅の豚, Hepburn: Kurenai no Buta, lit. ' Crimson Pig ') is a 1992 Japanese animated adventure fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1989 manga Hikōtei Jidai. It stars the voices of Shūichirō Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akemi Okamura and Akio Ōtsuka.
Jan 2, 2006 · A strange story in an imaginary world, Iblard. A boy, Nona, is walking in a desert alone. He meets a strange woman, Ninya, and starts living in her farm. One day, Nona gets a seed of a star in return of vegetables, and decides to grow it.
Watch Hoshi o Katta Hi. This film is about the story of a young boy, who is bored with the city life so he decides to travel into the country. One day, he tries to bring some vegetables with him to sell to the marketplace when his cart mysteriously breaks down.
