Koji Yamamura Movies

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

Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.

There are three "Motifs". The complete differences between them make themselves self-doubt. The melody begins, and the music motif could not resist...

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...

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a...

A young man is drawing sketches of birds in the woods. The spotted pattern of the bird’s wings begins to scatter. He gradually becomes...

Mother secretly threw a letter of her daughter in the snow ocean. The daughter in suspicion, followed her mother and sneak into a boat. She waits for...

Now a grown woman, I sit on the train recollecting my childhood. That morning field baking in the sun. Making one bamboo-leaf boat after the other....

The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That...

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

All of a sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone[s] is. . . simply play, but it doesn’t work as simply as it seems. He...

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...

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

How to spend a ten-minute break at club activities. Let us take off [our] shoes and socks, and enjoy the fresh breeze between our toes. We are all...

The story about a Palestinian girl who feeds animals at the zoo.

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.

Short by Koji Yamamura

Short by Koji Yamamura

This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear...

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...