Koji Yamamura Movies

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

People can show some other personality when eating. Some become like herbivores, chewing so many times. Some becomes like carp, crowing around...

It's winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.

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

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

A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl...

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,...

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he...

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this...

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

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...

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...

The film expresses the sense of being left behind. It stems from the realities of my childhood and how they did not match up with what I was feeling...

Nobody in a class loves ‘Kuchao’ who cannot live without. . . gum. When all [his] classmates fly their balloons, he wouldn’t...

Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite,...

What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again....

A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?

Increasing in number, small rabbits take care of a great dolphin. Can the dolphin get to sleep by rabbits’ gentle caress? May many people...