Mt. Head (Atamayama) 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.
[1][2] 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.