Koji Yamamura Movies

This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear...

My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and...

A woman pours milk from the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain a man milks and pours it into a tank. One evening his pigeon...

Two sisters stay at home alone. They spend their time in their own worlds, at times in synch with each other and other times disconnected.

The beach is packed in a Chinese resort. People are enjoying the summer holidays. An abrupt thundershower makes them run around in a flurry.

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

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.

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

A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom, or why he is waiting is not very important. He...

At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the...

A festival cut/compilation of the animated segments made by Yamamura Kouji for a TV documentary by NHK, Kojiki Girl Travelogue...

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

Short by Koji Yamamura

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy...

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

This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically...

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...

Ivory consumption in Japan is a bit of a problem. It needs to be stamped out.

Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. ...