Koji Yamamura Movies

What should one do if they encounter a jar that won’t open?

An animated documentary on intertwining memories and emotions experienced by the director in his hometown and current whereabouts.

This animation shows how the liquid in a glass erupts, spreads, mixes, and overflows.

Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.

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

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...

Guiltee is an art university student who is slacking off on her school work and feels horrible about it. Plus, she's confused about her family and...

A man blown by a blizzard on Snow Mountain wants to return to his warm home.

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

My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and...

In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought...

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

Buildings, black crows, a flood of bar codes, clone-looking businessmen, shopping-addicted ladies...these images which probably symbolizes excessive,...

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...

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...

At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the...

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

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 mouse finds a prism and it reveals to him a magnificent rainbow like he's never seen before. He tries to show his friends but for some reason it...

The second short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura