Koji Yamamura Movies

A festival cut/compilation of the animated segments made by Yamamura Kouji for a TV documentary by NHK, Kojiki Girl Travelogue...

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

The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest.

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

Something blue strays from the herd and ends up in someone’s house.

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

A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl...

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

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...

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.

Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from...

The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate. There is nothing remarkable about her. However, she has noticed there is something strange...

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of...

Everyone has a sense of justice. The protagonist thinks her ideas are right and voices her opinions through protests for social justice. One day the...

Various visions of life and death, as seen from an operation table. Did the operation succeed ? Is the patient still alive ?

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...

Mayumi is a spoiled girl whose parents buy her everything she wants. She names her name "Mayumi" to everything she receives, and her room is...

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...

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...