Koji Yamamura Movies

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but the...

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...

When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance...

This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

You always stumble before reach. The glass in your hand gets chipped every time. Then everything should start again from the start. There are,...

The third and last installment in the Karo and Piyobupt series by Koji Yamamura

Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from...

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...

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

Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of...

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,...

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this...

Nobody in a class loves ‘Kuchao’ who cannot live without. . . gum. When all [his] classmates fly their balloons, he wouldn’t...

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.

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

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a...

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.

Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people. This work expresses the...

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