Koji Yamamura Movies

The beach is packed in a Chinese resort. People are enjoying the summer holidays. An abrupt thundershower makes them run around in a flurry.

He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.

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

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

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

At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the...

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.

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

I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home. Days go by even while I wonder about, cry,...

On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.

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?...

She keeps a secret that can't be told, and gradually forgets it. The girl is no longer sure whether what she remembers happened in reality or in a...

A dog we like to pet on the way home from school, an eccentric guy, and ringing doorbells as a prank. That's our life in this town.

Two sisters stay at home alone. They spend their time in their own worlds, at times in synch with each other and other times disconnected.

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the...

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

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did...

Something blue strays from the herd and ends up in someone’s house.

When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe.

Tomorrow, they'll finish building the most beautiful tower on this planet. I've never seen it, but I bet it's beautiful. I couldn't wait to see the...