Koji Yamamura Movies

A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.

Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end.

This film is an allegory towards clumsy people. Having met egocentric people, I go down the stairs of melancholia. I get swallowed up by the waves...

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

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

That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.

The theme is ‘one continues to live, leaving his trace.’ It is an abstract animation in which movement is done by repetition of pencil...

A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom, or why he is waiting is not very important. He...

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

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George...

One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But,...

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none...

The image of dolphins ties together this story.

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...

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

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

A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

Okinawa is ominous right before the arrival of a typhoon. At first, Anri is excited by the unusual turn of events, but gradually she becomes fearful...

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...