Koji Yamamura Movies

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

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...

Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable...

Why do you want acceptance? If it's not going to happen, then forget about what it was you wanted acknowledged and just have some soup, like always.

My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and...

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. ...

Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He...

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,...

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...

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and...

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.

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

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did...

I conveyed my love and gratitude to a certain deceased physician amidst the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, while a personal shopper expressed the same...

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

Short by Koji Yamamura

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...

Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there?...

Far away from her hometown, the little fox studies in a foreign country. The monotonous days and bare relationships make her increasingly homesick....