Koji Yamamura Movies

Clouds flow by. Pictures evaporate. When the act of drawing is in tune with nature’s ways, an ancient poetry echoes through the sky and in due...

Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method...

‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's...

Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

Far away from her hometown, the little fox studies in a foreign country. The monotonous days and bare relationships make her increasingly homesick....

This film is an allegory towards clumsy people. Having met egocentric people, I go down the stairs of melancholia. I get swallowed up by the waves...

He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.

This video installation is an experiment that imagines the canvas as a box and animates images within that space.

All of a sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone[s] is. . . simply play, but it doesn’t work as simply as it seems. He...

The image of dolphins ties together this story.

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

Summer is coming to an end. A little girl on the beach remembers the days spent giggling and dancing with her friend. The goodbyes and memories...

How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its...

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up...

Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of...

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George...