Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale is loosely based on a story by a man who had what nationality?
Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale is a 2007 animated holiday themed fantasy comedy direct-to-video film starring "Tom and Jerry" produced by Warner Bros. Animation and directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone. It is loosely based on the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, with Jerry in the role of the Nutcracker, while Tom played one of the King Mouse's (who, in this version, is replaced with a cat) henchmen.
Hanasaka Jiisan Hanasaka Jiisan (花咲か爺さん ) , also called Hanasaka Jiijii (花咲か爺 ) , is a Japanese folk tale. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford collected it in "Tales of Old Japan" (1871), as "The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Blossom". Rev. David Thomson translated it as "The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom" for Hasegawa Takejirō's "Japanese Fairy Tale Series" (1885). Andrew Lang included it, as "The Envious Neighbor", in "The Violet Fairy Book" (1901), listing his source as "Japanische Marchen".