Koji Yamamura Movies

Why do you want acceptance? If it's not going to happen, then forget about what it was you wanted acknowledged and just have some soup, like always.

"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...

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

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.

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?...

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

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

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...

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,...

Inspired by the Fifteenth canto of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante meets his teacher, Brunetto Latini.

Okinawa is ominous right before the arrival of a typhoon. At first, Anri is excited by the unusual turn of events, but gradually she becomes fearful...

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,...

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

One day out of the blue Prof. Banno of came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air...

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George...

The image of dolphins ties together this story.

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

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

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite,...

When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance...