頭山　Mt. Head

2002 / 35mm Dolby Digital / STANDARD Direction, Animation, Art Direction, Editing: Koji Yamamura Narration & Shamisen: Takeharu Kunimoto / Screenplay: Shoji Yonemura / Music: Takeharu Kunimoto, Syzygies / Sound Design: Koji Kasamatsu Production: Yamamura Animation A miserly man eats a cherry seed he picked up, causing a cherry blossom to grow on his head, attracting cherry-viewing visitors. When the cherry blossom viewers cause too much noise and the tree is uprooted, the hole fills with water, attracting beachgoers. This work reinterprets the rakugo story "Atamayama" through animation, moving the setting to modern-day Tokyo. ★ASIFA 50th Anniversary Best 50 Animations: 19th place (2010) ★A Century of Animation: 100 Works: 70th place (Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2007) ★Top 100 Japanese Media Arts, Expert Selection Animation Category: 8th place (2006) ★2004 Kinema Junpo Cultural Film Top Ten: 10th place (2004) ★World and Japanese Animation Best 150 (2003): 90th place Nominated for the 75th Academy Awards® in the Best Animated Short Film category Grand Prix: Annecy 2003 Grand Prix: 16th Zagreb International Animated Film Festival Grand Prix: 10th Hiroshima International Animation Festival Grand Prix: Rencontres International Animated Film Festival Grand Prix: 15th Dresden International Animation and Short Film Festival Grand Prix: Media Wave 2003 Best Animated Short Film Award: 2nd International Animation Festival AniFes 2003 Třeboń Best Animated Short Film: 8th Manchester International Short Film Festival Runner-up (Computer Animation/Visual Effects): Ars Electronica Festival Silver Dove: 47th Leipzig International Documentary Animation Film Festival Silver Jaberrwocky): Etuda & Anima International Film Festival 2005 Best Short Film Audience Award: 8th Cinema t'Ecrin Best Soundtrack Award: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Best Animated Short Film Award: Badalona International Film Festival (FILMETS) Special Jury Prize: Chiavari International Animation Festival Special Jury Prize: 8th I Castelli Animati Special Jury Prize: Vilnius International Animated Film Festival Special Jury Prize: Netherlands Animation Film Festival Special Prize: 12th Stuttgart International Animated Film Festival Special Prize: 19th Berlin International Short Film Festival Excellent Award (Animation Category): 2002 (6th Japan Media Arts Festival), Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs Best Short Film Audience Award: 8th Cinema t'Ecrin Narration & Shamisen: Takeharu Kunimoto Music: Takeharu Kunimoto Syzygys Original Story: An old comic story (rakugo) "Atama-yama" Script Shoji Yonemura Direction, Animation, Design & Editing Koji Yamamura Sound Design Koji Kasamatsu Production: Yamamura Animation After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his head and he gets into a lot of trouble. This animated film is a modern interpretation of the traditional Japanese Rakugo story "Atama-yama" set in contemporary Tokyo. 19 place: 50 Best Animated Films for 50 Years of ASIFA (2010) 70 place:100 FILMS FOR A CENTURY OF ANIMATION (2007) 8 Place at Animation category that specialists selected:100 selections in Japanese Media Art (2006) 10 Place at Bunka Films : 77th Kinema-Junpo Best Ten (2004) 90 Place: World and Japanese Animation Best 150 (2003) The 2003 Oscar® he 75th Academy Awards Nomination Short Film (Animated) ANNECY 2003, Grand Prix (The Annecy Cristal) Grand Prix, World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb Grand Prix, Hiroshima International Animation Festival Grand Prix, MEDIAWAVE, Hungary Grand Prix, Filmfest Dresden "RICA" Grand Best animated short film, Rencontres Internationales du Cin?ma d'Animation de Wissembourg Best Film Animation, FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FILMETS DE BADALONA Best Film Animation, AniFest, Czech Auszeichnung Computeranimation /Visual Effects, Ars Electronica Festival Silver Dove, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2 PRIZE, Festival Internazionale Cinema d'Animazione e Fumetto Special Jury Award, CHIAVARI INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL Special Jury Award, I CASTELLI ANIMATI Special Jury Award, The International Animated Film Festival in Vilnius Excellence Prize, Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize, Interfilm short film festival Berlin Guilty Pleasures from each member of the jury (from Konstantin Bronzit), Holland Animation Film