Koji Yamamura Movies

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the...

What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again....

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

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing...

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs....

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.

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from...

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...

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but the...

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...

A mix of life tales in modern Japan where fate is predicted by your name and a fingerplay song. Are the members of this society playing into the...

All of a sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone[s] is. . . simply play, but it doesn’t work as simply as it seems. He...

A series of nine flipbook-like vignettes showcasing simple revelations of movement and color. Koji Yamamura's animation refers back to the...

Since I was born, the moon has circled the Earth 9,125 times. We all grew older with each orbit, but the moon never seems to age. A story about my...

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...

The star fell in love with the ocean, but this love was never reciprocated. So the star tried to discuss with friends. But no one can understand what...

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

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.

A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world....

Several painted figures are superimposed.