Koji Yamamura Movies

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...

Ivory consumption in Japan is a bit of a problem. It needs to be stamped out.

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none...

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her...

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to...

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

You always stumble before reach. The glass in your hand gets chipped every time. Then everything should start again from the start. There are,...

Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of...

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he...

‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's...

The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate. There is nothing remarkable about her. However, she has noticed there is something strange...

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...

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

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

"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...

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.