Koji Yamamura Movies

  • 2024
    Extremely Short

    Extremely Short

    Extremely Short

    82024HD

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

    Extremely Short
  • 2013
    Kicking Rocks

    Kicking Rocks

    Kicking Rocks

    02013HD

    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...

    Kicking Rocks
  • 2018
    Take Me Home

    Take Me Home

    Take Me Home

    02018HD

    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...

    Take Me Home
  • 2020
    WOKE

    WOKE

    WOKE

    02020HD

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

    WOKE
  • 2017
    South Forest

    South Forest

    South Forest

    02017HD

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

    South Forest
  • 2006
    Fig

    Fig

    Fig

    5.52006HD

    A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

    Fig
  • 2019
    Behind Us

    Behind Us

    Behind Us

    02019HD

    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,...

    Behind Us
  • 2014
    00:08

    00:08

    00:08

    5.52014HD

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

    00:08
  • 2014
    My Milk Cup Cow

    My Milk Cup Cow

    My Milk Cup Cow

    6.52014HD

    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...

    My Milk Cup Cow
  • 2017
    There was a man

    There was a man

    There was a man

    02017HD

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

    There was a man
  • 2017
    Candy.zip

    Candy.zip

    Candy.zip

    5.22017HD

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

    Candy.zip
  • 2016
    Zodiac One Third

    Zodiac One Third

    Zodiac One Third

    72016HD

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

    Zodiac One Third
  • 2019
    WildAid 'Hankograph'

    WildAid 'Hankograph'

    WildAid 'Hankograph'

    62019HD

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

    WildAid 'Hankograph'
  • 1989
    Japanese-English Pictionary

    Japanese-English Pictionary

    Japanese-English Pictionary

    6.71989HD

    Second short by Koji Yamamura

    Japanese-English Pictionary
  • 2005
    Frank & Wendy

    Frank & Wendy

    Frank & Wendy

    6.52005HD

    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...

    Frank & Wendy
  • 2018
    Time Autobahn

    Time Autobahn

    Time Autobahn

    02018HD

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

    Time Autobahn
  • 2021
    Our 2

    Our 2

    Our 2

    02021HD

    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...

    Our 2
  • 2019
    Boozy Woozy Wonderland

    Boozy Woozy Wonderland

    Boozy Woozy Wonderland

    02019HD

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

    Boozy Woozy Wonderland
  • 2017
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    yelp

    02017HD

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

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  • 1996
    Bavel's Book

    Bavel's Book

    Bavel's Book

    5.71996HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura

    Bavel's Book