Atama-yama
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Atama-yama |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kōji Yamamura |
| script | Shōji Yonemura |
| production | Kōji Yamamura for Yamamura Animation Production |
| music | Takeharu Kunimoto |
Atama-yama ( Japanese 頭 山 , dt. "Head mountain") is a Japanese animated short film by Kōji Yamamura from 2002.
action
Contemporary Tokyo : A man wakes up and finds a small tree on his head. He wonders. He goes into town and picks up cherries from the floor, which he eats back in his apartment. Since the man cannot throw things away, he also eats the cherry stones. The tree on his head continues to sprout, even if the man always cuts it off at the beginning of the trunk. One day he decides to let the tree grow and no longer take care of it.
Winter passes and the tree begins to bloom in spring. It is a cherry tree and soon numerous people gather under the tree on the man's head. They make noise, leave garbage, and urinate on the tree; a visitor's discarded shoe ends up in the man's pasta dish. He gets angry and pulls the tree out by the root.
What remains is a crater that fills with water after rain showers. It is now becoming a popular spot for swimmers and anglers. The man rushes out of town and comes to a lake. In the reflection of the lake he recognizes himself on his head, who is looking into the lake on his head. The picture becomes endless. The man eventually plunges into his own lake and dies.
production
Director Kōji Yamamura read the story about the "head mountain" Atama-yama at the age of ten in a collection of rakugos written down for children . The film is presented as Rōkyoku: Takeharu Kunimoto tells and sings the plot, imitates all the voices and accompanies himself on the Shamisen .
The short film is based on hand drawings that have been animated and colored on the computer.
Awards
On the Annecy International Animated Film Festival received Mount Head 2003 Cristal d'Annecy . Atama-yama was awarded the Grand Prize at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films in 2004 and also received the Grand Prize at the Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival in the same year.
Atama-yama was nominated for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ” in 2003 , but couldn't beat The Chubbchubbs! push through.
Web links
- Mount Head in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taylor Jessen: Koji Yamamura - Atama-yama / 2002 . In: Mike Judge, Don Hertzfeldt (Ed.): The Animation Show . Pp. 35-36.