Koji Yamamura Movies

‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's...

A glimpse into a world where uniformity and conformity rule.

That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.

She keeps a secret that can't be told, and gradually forgets it. The girl is no longer sure whether what she remembers happened in reality or in a...

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

Short by Koji Yamamura

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

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

A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its...

Short by Koji Yamamura

An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era. Featuring insights and anecdotes...

I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home. Days go by even while I wonder about, cry,...

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. ...

A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.

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

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

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her...

Short by Koji Yamamura

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

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...