Koji Yamamura Movies

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

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

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

A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?

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...

It's winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.

The gaze of a woman from a window at other windows leads to a recollection of various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect,...

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...

Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume...

The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters.

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...

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

Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there?...

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought...

The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest.

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did...

The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That...

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,...

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

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