Koji Yamamura Movies

Since I was born, the moon has circled the Earth 9,125 times. We all grew older with each orbit, but the moon never seems to age. A story about my...

Mimi is fed up with her pathetic self. One day she walks along looking at the ground like usual when she notices a suspicious flyer.

Short by Koji Yamamura

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....

Mayumi is a spoiled girl whose parents buy her everything she wants. She names her name "Mayumi" to everything she receives, and her room is...

Inspired by the Fifteenth canto of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante meets his teacher, Brunetto Latini.

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

This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically...

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.

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

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

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but the...

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

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs....

How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.

The soundless stop-motion paint-on-glass film by Koji Yamamura showcases the different seasons. He created the short in his early career in 1988. It...

A scene inspired by the Seto Inland Sea is depicted in the style of a sumi-e painting, set to a violin version of the koto piece "HARU NO UMI (The...

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...

Playtime ends at the five o'clock chime. And there comes the indefinable time between vanishing playtime and dinner time at home.