Koji Yamamura Movies

Everyone crosses the Red Bridge and yet no one likes him. One day, he falls into the deep valley.

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...

Commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, the film is a reinterpretation of Dante and Beatrice's reunion story, from "Vita Nova" to the...

A dog we like to pet on the way home from school, an eccentric guy, and ringing doorbells as a prank. That's our life in this town.

Brothers eating dinner, a girl watering the plants, a boy awakening in the night… The daily scenery from the house where they all lived at one...

One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.

Microorganisms propagate, gather, and transform into an A4 sheet of paper. You can feel signs of life within the page.

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

Ivory consumption in Japan is a bit of a problem. It needs to be stamped out.

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...

Once upon a time, a man killed the king's pet dog. He was executed and reincarnated as a canis but with the memory of his past life as a man.

Second short by Koji Yamamura

A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are...

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. ...

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home...

Clouds flow by. Pictures evaporate. When the act of drawing is in tune with nature’s ways, an ancient poetry echoes through the sky and in due...

A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.

The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.