Koji Yamamura Movies

A bride runs at full speed, with her veil flapping, and with steam. When you happen to encounter a bride in her wedding dress, you would love to...

Two brothers are drawing pictures in art class, but they see completely different things. The younger one is confused by the behavior of his brother,...

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

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...

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...

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...

Clouds flow by. Pictures evaporate. When the act of drawing is in tune with nature’s ways, an ancient poetry echoes through the sky and in due...

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

Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.

TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background....

A game to find image in a chance. In this Aleatoricism there are much more potentials than what I have moved.

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...

"You're right. There was a bug–I killed it." Late at night, only one voice wafts around the room. What lies on the other end of the telephone...

Two sisters stay at home alone. They spend their time in their own worlds, at times in synch with each other and other times disconnected.

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this...

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...

This film is an allegory towards clumsy people. Having met egocentric people, I go down the stairs of melancholia. I get swallowed up by the waves...

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

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

When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of...