Movies: Yamamura Animation

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story....

A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows back. After a while, he gives up and lets it grow, but the crowds that gather on top of his head to enj...

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past....

Short by Koji Yamamura...

A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking animals" in scroll painting-style; this time, "Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play o...

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal ...

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief....

Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable ‘da’ – a breath that could just as well be the first as the last....

Short by Koji Yamamura...

Short by Koji Yamamura...

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop...

Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn't capture the essence at all....

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji....

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

This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from the 2016 Champion and Patron Members of Reel Asian. Chinese Zodiac is 60-years cycle by 10 heavenly el...

Short by Koji Yamamura...

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

A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should....

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

Short by Koji Yamamura...