Koji Yamamura Movies

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the...

TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background....

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.

When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. ...

The second short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her...

Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume...

What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again....

Short by Koji Yamamura

An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come...

Everyone crosses the Red Bridge and yet no one likes him. One day, he falls into the deep valley.

Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs....

This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because...

You always stumble before reach. The glass in your hand gets chipped every time. Then everything should start again from the start. There are,...

"You're right. There was a bug–I killed it." Late at night, only one voice wafts around the room. What lies on the other end of the telephone...

We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to the new day…

The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so...

A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are...