Koji Yamamura Movies

He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.

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

A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its...

A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?

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

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...

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.

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.

Human-like creatures inhabit this planet. Their peaceful lives are senselessly destroyed by octopus suckers that appear out of the blue. Then comes a...

This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear...

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the...

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

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

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...

Several painted figures are superimposed.

One rainy day, a squid falls on a crosswalk. A businessman and a homeless man see the squid and get lost in their own fantasies.

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

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