Koji Yamamura Movies

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....

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...

Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows (伝説のワニ ジェイク) is a Japanese surreal fantasy...

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

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...

Collaborations between some of contemporary Japan's finest musicians and filmmakers. The Nihon no Uta Executive Committee produced a series of...

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.

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,...

The theme is ‘one continues to live, leaving his trace.’ It is an abstract animation in which movement is done by repetition of pencil...

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...

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and...

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy...

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.

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

The mouse finds a prism and it reveals to him a magnificent rainbow like he's never seen before. He tries to show his friends but for some reason it...

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 series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to the new day…

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...

An one-armed mountaineer encounters a lost arm on a mountain of salt. Who did it belong to? Why was it left there?