Koji Yamamura Movies

The angel of wind exhales, sending fluffy dandelion seeds into a slow dance. Wind and light guide the downy seeds into the magical world of botany.

When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe.

We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to the new day…

Story of a girl’s imagination. ‘Googuri Googuri’ is a made up word, a secret word shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the...

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

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He...

The gaze of a woman from a window at other windows leads to a recollection of various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect,...

Since I was born, the moon has circled the Earth 9,125 times. We all grew older with each orbit, but the moon never seems to age. A story about my...

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as...

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

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

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...

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

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from...

This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because...

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...

The second short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

Okinawa is ominous right before the arrival of a typhoon. At first, Anri is excited by the unusual turn of events, but gradually she becomes fearful...

A bride runs at full speed, with her veil flapping, and with steam. When you happen to encounter a bride in her wedding dress, you would love to...

This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically...