Oscari lühifilmid

Mt. Head (Atama-yama)

Dir. Koji Yamamura, Japan 2002, 10 min

A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows back. After a while, he gives up and lets it grow, but the crowds that gather on top of his head to enjoy the tree (and leave huge mounds of trash) eventually drive him to uproot the tree.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award in the category of the Best Animated Short Film in 2003.

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The House of Small Cubes (Tsumiki no ie)

Dir. Kunio Kato, Japan 2008, 12 min

As his town is flooded by water, an old man is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe into the lower levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life.

The film won the Academy Award in the category of the Best Animated Short Film in 2009.

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Possessions (Tsukumo)

Dir. Shuhei Morita, Japan 2013, 14 min

A lost wanderer seeks refuge inside a shrine where he finds lots of possessed objects.

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Combustible (Hi-no-youjin)

Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan 2013, 12 min

The events that led to the Great Fire of Meireki which destroyed more than half of the Japanese capital city of Edo.

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Gambo

Dir. Hiroaki Ando, Japan 2013, 12 min

A young girl asks a white bear to defeat a vicious ogre that is kidnapping the first born girls of a small village.

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A Farewell to Weapons (Buki yo Saraba)

Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan 2013, 25 min

In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of soldiers is sent to a ghost city to destroy an automated sentry.