Koji Yamamura Movies

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....

Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

A glimpse into a world where uniformity and conformity rule.

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...

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

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...

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

This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from...

One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But,...

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing...

An one-armed mountaineer encounters a lost arm on a mountain of salt. Who did it belong to? Why was it left there?

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

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

Second short by Koji Yamamura

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even...

A stray dog that a girl loved so much wanted an apple. Meanwhile, the carrots try to turn everything into a seedbed.

Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method...

The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and drinks up milk, but there isn't any cow. Her father...

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...