Koji Yamamura Movies

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

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,...

This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He...

A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world....

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the...

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

The soundless stop-motion paint-on-glass film by Koji Yamamura showcases the different seasons. He created the short in his early career in 1988. It...

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

A visitor shows up in the middle of the night at the countryside house that Miyako shares with her father. Miyako goes to wake up her father, but the...

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...

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...

Short by Koji Yamamura

Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

The film expresses the sense of being left behind. It stems from the realities of my childhood and how they did not match up with what I was feeling...

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...

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

He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him....