Koji Yamamura Movies

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

The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so...

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up...

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

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...

One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.

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

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy...

The image of dolphins ties together this story.

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...

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

In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought...

A man blown by a blizzard on Snow Mountain wants to return to his warm home.

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

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.

A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. ...

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...

Two brothers are drawing pictures in art class, but they see completely different things. The younger one is confused by the behavior of his brother,...