Koji Yamamura Movies

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...

A mix of life tales in modern Japan where fate is predicted by your name and a fingerplay song. Are the members of this society playing into the...

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

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

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...

One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home...

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.

Deep down the alley the black cat has entered is a town where nonhuman beings live in peace. The cat returns to his home to rest when suddenly he...

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...

In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the...

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He...

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.

The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone....

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

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

Short by Koji Yamamura

A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and...

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

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