Koji Yamamura Movies

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

One rainy day, a squid falls on a crosswalk. A businessman and a homeless man see the squid and get lost in their own fantasies.

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

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

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...

A girl goes for a ramble in the neighborhood. The friendly dog is barking as usual. Oh, there goes a cat. Wait, no, it's just a shopping bag. The old...

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought...

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

Short by Koji Yamamura

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 motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.

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

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...

On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of...

Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end.

TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background....

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

The third and last installment in the Karo and Piyobupt series by Koji Yamamura

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.