Koji Yamamura Movies

A girl made of unmelted snow has fallen in love with the dragon who brings spring. A story of changing seasons and thawing hearts.

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...

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.

We have limited control over our bodies, and we can't change ourselves at will. While I yearn for complete freedom, I also want to make peace with my...

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...

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a...

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

Many arms cling to a man. He doesn’t like it but he believes the situation will never change.

This video installation is an experiment that imagines the canvas as a box and animates images within that space.

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.

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

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

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...

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.

The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That...

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George...

Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop.

One rainy day, a squid falls on a crosswalk. A businessman and a homeless man see the squid and get lost in their own fantasies.