Yamamura Animation Movies

A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows...

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as...

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

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.

Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable...

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.

A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking...

Short by Koji Yamamura

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the...

Several painted figures are superimposed.

Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. sit down to discuss their highly anticipated May 6 showdown.

A very old crocodile is shunned by his family after eating one of them.

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

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

A series of nine flipbook-like vignettes showcasing simple revelations of movement and color. Koji Yamamura's animation refers back to the...

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...

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George...

A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should.

This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from...

Buildings, black crows, a flood of bar codes, clone-looking businessmen, shopping-addicted ladies...these images which probably symbolizes excessive,...