Koji Yamamura Movies

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.

Several painted figures are superimposed.

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

Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from...

The second short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

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....

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

Second short by Koji Yamamura

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this...

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...

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he...

This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because...

This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom...

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. ...

The little girl has a complex because she doesn’t look like her mom, and the mom wants her daughter to look more ladylike. Their faces...

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He...

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

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...