Koji Yamamura Movies

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.

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...

Inspired by the Fifteenth canto of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante meets his teacher, Brunetto Latini.

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 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....

That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.

A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this...

Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people. This work expresses the...

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did...

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

Short by Koji Yamamura

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...

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...

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...

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

When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. ...

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

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.