Koji Yamamura Movies

Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there?...

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

This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because...

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...

We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to the new day…

A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire...

Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows (伝説のワニ ジェイク) is a Japanese surreal fantasy...

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...

She keeps a secret that can't be told, and gradually forgets it. The girl is no longer sure whether what she remembers happened in reality or in a...

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

The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That...

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.

What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again....

A scene inspired by the Seto Inland Sea is depicted in the style of a sumi-e painting, set to a violin version of the koto piece "HARU NO UMI (The...

People can show some other personality when eating. Some become like herbivores, chewing so many times. Some becomes like carp, crowing around...

In the moments before death, one of the Battling Gods recalls his defeat in a magnificent fight. That battle transcended meta worlds, time and...

A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.

A young man is drawing sketches of birds in the woods. The spotted pattern of the bird’s wings begins to scatter. He gradually becomes...

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...

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