Koji Yamamura Movies

One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.

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...

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he...

Guiltee is an art university student who is slacking off on her school work and feels horrible about it. Plus, she's confused about her family and...

Short by Koji Yamamura

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

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

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...

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop.

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...

A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.

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

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...

A young man is drawing sketches of birds in the woods. The spotted pattern of the bird’s wings begins to scatter. He gradually becomes...

The image of dolphins ties together this story.

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

On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of...

Second short by Koji Yamamura