Koji Yamamura Movies

An apple flows down the stream of a mill where innumerable illusions of fish appear and disappear in the sky reflected in the water.

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end.

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...

Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn't capture the essence at all.

This animation shows how the liquid in a glass erupts, spreads, mixes, and overflows.

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...

Second short by Koji Yamamura

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.

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...

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

The 5 animation poems singing joy of life, inspired by Normand Roger’s music. Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little...

Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there?...

In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought...

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought...

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

A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world....

How to make this mysterious cake? The ingredients include blue eggs, cookie flowers, pillow stuffing and much more.

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house....

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