Koji Yamamura Movies

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

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

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...

Short by Koji Yamamura

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing...

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

Why do you want acceptance? If it's not going to happen, then forget about what it was you wanted acknowledged and just have some soup, like always.

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

Microorganisms propagate, gather, and transform into an A4 sheet of paper. You can feel signs of life within the page.

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

In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the...

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him....

The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters.

When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of...

Fluffy turtles, fluffy monkeys, fluffy lizards. Discover the world populated by these mysteriously charming imaginary creatures. They have adorably...

The soundless stop-motion paint-on-glass film by Koji Yamamura showcases the different seasons. He created the short in his early career in 1988. It...

A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and...

A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.

Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none...