Koji Yamamura Movies

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...

Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of...

"You're right. There was a bug–I killed it." Late at night, only one voice wafts around the room. What lies on the other end of the telephone...

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

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

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none...

Many arms cling to a man. He doesn’t like it but he believes the situation will never change.

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...

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

Various visions of life and death, as seen from an operation table. Did the operation succeed ? Is the patient still alive ?

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

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite,...

There's a pet caterpillar named Larva in my class. I don't like bugs but Larva is sweet and we become friends. But one day, I am faced with a...

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.

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

Ivory consumption in Japan is a bit of a problem. It needs to be stamped out.

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him....

When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. ...

The 5 animation poems singing joy of life, inspired by Normand Roger’s music. Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little...

Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.