Koji Yamamura Movies

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.

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...

Playtime ends at the five o'clock chime. And there comes the indefinable time between vanishing playtime and dinner time at home.

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

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...

In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought...

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.

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

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...

The image of dolphins ties together this story.

Since I was born, the moon has circled the Earth 9,125 times. We all grew older with each orbit, but the moon never seems to age. A story about my...

All of a sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone[s] is. . . simply play, but it doesn’t work as simply as it seems. He...

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

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...

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

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

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...

No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.