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The Day I Harvested a Planet 星をかった日
Directed by	Hayao Miyazaki
Written by	Hayao Miyazaki Naohisa Inoue
Starring	Ryunosuke Kamiki Yo Oizumi Kyoka Suzuki Genzō Wakayama
Music by	Yuriko Nakamura Norihiro Tsuru
Release date(s)	3 January 2006 Limited release in Ghibli Museum only
Running time	16 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Hoshi o Katta Hi (星をかった日 ^?, literally "The Day [I] Harvested a Planet") is an animated 2006 short film produced by Studio Ghibli for their exclusive use in the Ghibli Museum. The film is based on a story by Naohisa Inoue.

Plot

The film tells how a boy moves from the city to the country. He works on a farm and one day when going to sell vegetables on a market, his cart breaks down. A stranger offers 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 moving back to the city again, 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.

External links

• The Day I Harvested a Star
  星をかった日 at the Internet Movie Database