is a 2002
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
short film. It was nominated at the
75th Academy Awards
The 75th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonl ...
in the category of
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...
.
Plot
It is based on Japanese ''
rakugo
is a form of ''yose'', which is itself a form of Japanese verbal entertainment. The lone sits on a raised platform, a . Using only a and a as props, and without standing up from the seiza sitting position, the rakugo artist depicts a long ...
'' of the same title, with a slightly modernized settings. A stingy man eats the pits of some cherries, causing a tree to grow on top of his head. When crowds start converging and partying on his head, being noisy, he got annoyed and uproots the tree. Rainwater pours in the hole, creating a lake. After that, a lot of swimmers converge on this lake, and his head is too noisy again. Enraged, the man commits suicide by throwing himself into the lake on his own head.
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Plot of the original ''rakugo'' version
The original differs in that, he ate just one cherry with its pit, and instead of swimmers, a lot of anglers converge on his lake and fish hooks are hooked to the man's eyelid and nose.
See also
*Japanese folklore
Japanese folklore encompasses the informally learned folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people as expressed in its oral traditions, customs, and material culture.
In Japanese, the term is used to describe folklore. The academic study ...
*2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events.
Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 2002 by worldwide gross are as follows:
2002 was the first year to see three films cross the eight-hundred-million-dollar mileston ...
References
External links
* The animation
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** (''Mt. Head'')
* The rakugo
**{{cite serial
, first1=Shinoharu
, last1=Tatekawa
, date =19 March 2018
, title =Atama Yama
, series=Rakugo - Japanese traditional style comedy (FM radio broadcast)
, number=49
, language =English
, url =https://podcasts.tfm.co.jp/podcasts/tokyo/rakugo/rakugo_en_20180319.mp3
, access-date =11 November 2019
, format =mp3
, network=Tokyo FM
, publication-place=Japan
2002 films
2002 animated films
2002 anime
2000s Japanese-language films
Japanese short films
Rakugo
Japanese folklore
Japanese literature
Films directed by Kōji Yamamura