Koji Yamamura Movies

The image of dolphins ties together this story.

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,...

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

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

A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are...

A glimpse into a world where uniformity and conformity rule.

This video installation is an experiment that imagines the canvas as a box and animates images within that space.

A man blown by a blizzard on Snow Mountain wants to return to his warm home.

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...

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her...

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

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up...

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

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he...

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the...

We have limited control over our bodies, and we can't change ourselves at will. While I yearn for complete freedom, I also want to make peace with my...

Once upon a time, a man killed the king's pet dog. He was executed and reincarnated as a canis but with the memory of his past life as a man.

That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.