Koji Yamamura Filmes

A festival cut/compilation of the animated segments made by Yamamura Kouji for a TV documentary by NHK, Kojiki Girl Travelogue...

Summer is coming to an end. A little girl on the beach remembers the days spent giggling and dancing with her friend. The goodbyes and memories...

The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.

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...

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.

A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl...

Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn't capture the essence at all.

In the moments before death, one of the Battling Gods recalls his defeat in a magnificent fight. That battle transcended meta worlds, time and...

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...

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

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...

This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear...

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

We have limited control over our bodies, and we can't change ourselves at will. While I yearn for complete freedom, I also want to make peace with 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.

One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But,...

A girl goes for a ramble in the neighborhood. The friendly dog is barking as usual. Oh, there goes a cat. Wait, no, it's just a shopping bag. The old...

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.