Koji Yamamura Movies

Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable...

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...

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...

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

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

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

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,...

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Short by Koji Yamamura