Koji Yamamura Movies

This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom...

Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from...

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....

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...

The theme is ‘one continues to live, leaving his trace.’ It is an abstract animation in which movement is done by repetition of pencil...

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy...

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

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...

Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

The 5 animation poems singing joy of life, inspired by Normand Roger’s music. Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little...

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and...

Yasu is a cat over 20 years old. He's still alive and kicking in the house he was left behind.

A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom, or why he is waiting is not very important. He...

This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from...

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

Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.

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

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

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...

Suffering from her delusion, K tries to depict her disorder in her paintings. In her dream, she finds a frame, which makes her believe that drawing...