Koji Yamamura Filmes

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

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

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of...

You always stumble before reach. The glass in your hand gets chipped every time. Then everything should start again from the start. There are,...

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

At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the...

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

This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom...

The 5 animation poems singing joy of life, inspired by Normand Roger’s music. Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little...

A man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire...

A woman pours milk from the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain a man milks and pours it into a tank. One evening his pigeon...

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

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her...

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...

Yasu is a cat over 20 years old. He's still alive and kicking in the house he was left behind.

One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks.Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none...

Suffering from her delusion, K tries to depict her disorder in her paintings. In her dream, she finds a frame, which makes her believe that drawing...

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

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