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Mt. Head
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Wikipedia article
is a 2002 anime short film. It was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards in the category of Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAVUzeJijiM Short Film Oscar Winners in 2003-Oscars on YouTube]
Plot
It is based on Japanese 'rakugo' 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.[https://www.animationshowofshows.com/collections/films/products/mt-head-by-koji-yamamura Animation Show of Shows]
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
*2002 in film
References
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