An old couple discovers mice holding sumo tournaments in the mountains, and Studio Ghibli spends twenty minutes letting you sit in that gentle magic without rushing a single frame. The film barely speaks. It doesn't need to, everything lives in the watercolor expressions, the tiny wrestlers' focused faces, the rhythm of the matches themselves. This is comfort cinema designed to restore something in you that exhaustion had taken away.

Deep in the mountains, an old couple spends each day worn out from hard labor in their fields. One night the old man spots a line of mice heading off somewhere, trails them, and finds them holding a sumo tournament. He and his wife learn that the mice from their own house always lose. Hoping to help, the couple cooks a feast of saury dumplings and grilled tofu with miso, and they even make the team new red sumo uniforms. Adapted from a Japanese folk tale, this comedic short film was made to be shown only at the Ghibli Museum.