Whisper from TOTORO

First of all, I watched a Ghibli short movie at Dosei-za(土星座--means The Saturn theater)
Ghibli shorts are screened only at Ghibli Museum. We can't see any DVDs or pirated movie files of them on the internet .
Now, "Hoshi wo katta hi" is on the screen.(星をかった日--The day I bought a star--15 minutes)
It's a story about a boy who bought a seed of a star and grew it. It's a simple and short story but is full of fantastic images.
The location of this story is Iblard. It's an imaginary land created and painted by Inoue Naohisa(井上直久）
You can see some images of it in "Whisper of the heart"(耳をすませば--1995, Ghibli, directed by Kondo Yoshifumi).
Or, Ghibli published a DVD "Iblard jikan" which shows the fantastic sceneries of Iblard with many still images.

pic above: Hoshi wo katta hi

pic right upper: Hoshi wo katta hi

pic right middle: Whisper of the heart

pic right lower: Iblard jikan