Koji Yamamura Movies

Various visions of life and death, as seen from an operation table. Did the operation succeed ? Is the patient still alive ?

The third and last installment in the Karo and Piyobupt series by Koji Yamamura

An one-armed mountaineer encounters a lost arm on a mountain of salt. Who did it belong to? Why was it left there?

An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era. Featuring insights and anecdotes...

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...

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a...

Second short by Koji Yamamura

The story about a Palestinian girl who feeds animals at the zoo.

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

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing...

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

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...

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...

It consists of only woman who keeps caressing a resisting cat.

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

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

A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.

One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But,...

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....

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.