Mt. Head (Atama Yama)

Year listed: 2015

Published at the original source: 2015-03-03. This is the upload date, which may differ from the film’s release.

11 min · Japanese · Animation · Comedy · Fantasy

A stingy man swallows a cherry pit he picked up, and a cherry tree sprouts from the top of his head. Soon noisy crowds of blossom-viewers arrive to party beneath it, and when he pulls the tree out, the hole left behind fills with water and draws swimmers instead. The film reworks a traditional Japanese rakugo comic tale, relocating it to present-day Tokyo.

Why we picked it

Koji Yamamura's Oscar-nominated animation retells the rakugo tale of a miser who grows a cherry tree on his head. Its makers note it ranked in Annecy's list of 100 films for a century of animation.

Not curator-rated for children; full audiovisual content was not inspected.

Source: Yamamura Animation

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