Koji Yamamura Movies

One morning, a woman leaves home for work like any other day. In another place, a loan shark is terrorizing a family. A cross-cutting of two...

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

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

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...

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 image of dolphins ties together this story.

A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should.

The beach is packed in a Chinese resort. People are enjoying the summer holidays. An abrupt thundershower makes them run around in a flurry.

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

The Tokyo Tower and the window transform themselves into the characters, and roam in the night of Tokyo.

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

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...

How to spend a ten-minute break at club activities. Let us take off [our] shoes and socks, and enjoy the fresh breeze between our toes. We are all...

Guiltee is an art university student who is slacking off on her school work and feels horrible about it. Plus, she's confused about her family and...

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

Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.

A scene inspired by the Seto Inland Sea is depicted in the style of a sumi-e painting, set to a violin version of the koto piece "HARU NO UMI (The...

On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of...

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

Increasing in number, small rabbits take care of a great dolphin. Can the dolphin get to sleep by rabbits’ gentle caress? May many people...