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...

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...

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...

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,...

A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world....

Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

The story about a Palestinian girl who feeds animals at the zoo.

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs....

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...

Story of a girl’s imagination. ‘Googuri Googuri’ is a made up word, a secret word shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the...

A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.

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

Goldfish born in Tenjinnuma, a famous goldfish production area, were auctioned off and sold to Yokota Gumi. The goldfish scooped by elementary school...

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. ...

Inspired by the Fifteenth canto of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante meets his teacher, Brunetto Latini.

Deep down the alley the black cat has entered is a town where nonhuman beings live in peace. The cat returns to his home to rest when suddenly he...

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.

How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.

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

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from...