Koji Yamamura Movies

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...

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.

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...

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

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

He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.

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

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

The film expresses the sense of being left behind. It stems from the realities of my childhood and how they did not match up with what I was feeling...

Many arms cling to a man. He doesn’t like it but he believes the situation will never change.

Tomorrow, they'll finish building the most beautiful tower on this planet. I've never seen it, but I bet it's beautiful. I couldn't wait to see the...

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

In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the...

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

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the...

This is an animated work created using sand. We built our own multi-plane shooting table and adjusted the transmitted and reflected light using a...

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. ...

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

A music video by Koji Yamamura.