Koji Yamamura Movies

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...

One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.

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

This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so...

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,...

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.

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

Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance...

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...

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the...

Short by Koji Yamamura

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

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...

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house....

Short by Koji Yamamura

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

In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the...

Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people. This work expresses the...