AniWorthMt. Head
Introduction
After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his head and he gets into a lot of trouble.
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.34/10 · 5024
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Audience reviews
5 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Convectuoso
Adapted from a Rakugo play from what would appear like ancient times, Koji Yamamura's 2002 tour de force of allegorical dungeoneering into the murkiest depths of the ailing human psyche is nothing short of poetic. The way he weaves sometimes trustworthy, sometimes unreliable visual correlation with the written form enthuses, all while viewers are left by their lonesome to decode what's really to be taken as fact within the mental strain of the character's descent into maddening despair.
One major takeaway would be the integration of motifs as the crux of all chaos that is seen to its causal endpoint on the artifice of destiny. Every swath of misfortune that befalls the man with the cherry tree growing from his bald head is caused by his indignation to resign and uproot it before tertiary…
Read at the sourcePharuanUndearth
A very funny and good short, sort of like a Kabuki(themed) play (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki).
Pros: A great funny story with great sounds.
Cons: Nothing.
~SPOILERS~
The story starts off like a kabuki style, with music and stlyized verbage. It has the narrator and a main protagonist, a cheap man who picks up food and other debris off the ground. One day he picks up cherries from the ground and decides to eat them all of them including the seeds. This somehow lets him grow a sakura tree out of his head. People magically appear on his head like it's the Sakura blossoms in Tokyo or even in Philadelphia and they gather and leave garbage and interfere with his "Meal Time". He eventually gets fed up with all the noise and pollution, and rips the tree out of his head which leaves a…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate a 6
English Subtitled
Psychological film
Plot
Indecisive is a grand word to express this work. Introduction was fairly simple hinting at what was to come and shortly after providing the pretext behind it. As the story progressed you seemed to know what was going on but it doesn't really pan out that way. In fact it bends into something else entirely. Somewhere in the bending out phase i was lost as a viewer with the plot. At first i thought i was seeing something similar to the making of a gardener only to have it morph into a visit from a therapist? I suppose i get it but clearer wording for description is needed like for example psychological. For it is not just the plot that tells a story but the art as well. Conclusion, makes sense to what the show was leading up to but i feel a…
Read at the sourcestarshinesMonet
Yamamura Kōji has a way of making his work feel more like I am listening to a variation of Japanese
theatre with surrealistic images in the background rather than watching an anime, which is a large part of what makes watching it so interesting! This verve for stage direction comes mostly from his choice of story adaptation, seiyuu and musical directors as much as from his execution or art style, which often leave its viewer wondering what really happened there. And while his art style is unique, where Yamamura Kōji really shines is how he tells a story.
In my review for Inaka Isha I mentioned the feel of Noh theatre in the work; for this adaptation of traditional Japanese rakugo* story Atama Yama, director Yamamura Kōji tells the story using another kind of traditional Japanese fare -…
Read at the sourceKizaragi
Atama Yama (2003) is a short anime with a duration of about 10 minutes by Koji Yamamura. Having a simple story that cool to live as full of meaning. Unlike Inaka Isha (2007) who may be visually confusing, it looks more simple and will make us realize how important it is to appreciate the environment. Is this a form of call/invitation or criticism, which obviously this anime has the unique delivery and good intentions.. Altough it only has a simple meaning but this anime will make you nods..
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