Koji Yamamura Movies

Playtime ends at the five o'clock chime. And there comes the indefinable time between vanishing playtime and dinner time at home.

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

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

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

What should one do if they encounter a jar that won’t open?

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

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

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,...

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

A man blown by a blizzard on Snow Mountain wants to return to his warm home.

A woman pours milk from the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain a man milks and pours it into a tank. One evening his pigeon...

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

One day out of the blue Prof. Banno of came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air...

An animated documentary on intertwining memories and emotions experienced by the director in his hometown and current whereabouts.

The film is set in China in the 1960s. An old woman cools herself in the garden. The sunset makes the sky orange. Sunset flower starts to bloom. ...

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up...

This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from...

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

At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the...

We cannot stay here any longer. We must leave tomorrow morning. A clown convinces and hurries the residents of an amusement park, a girl, a gay, a...