Yamamura Animation Movies
- 2011
Muybridge's Strings
Muybridge's Strings62011HD
Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.
- 2007
Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor
Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor6.82007HD
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...
- 2002
Mount Head
Mount Head6.42002HD
A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows...
- 1995
Kid's Castle
Kid's Castle5.51995HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 1990
Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-
Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-5.251990HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 2013
Five Fire Fish
Five Fire Fish02013HD
Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.
- 2021
Dozens of Norths
Dozens of Norths2.72021HD
Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn't capture the essence at all.
- 2016
Satie's "Parade"
Satie's "Parade"6.22016HD
A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,...
- 1985
Serenade
Serenade81985HD
One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...
- 2024
Extremely Short
Extremely Short82024HD
Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable...
- 2007
Man & Whale
Man & Whale72007HD
A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the...
- 2005
The Old Crocodile
The Old Crocodile6.42005HD
An short movie that is illustrated in black and white using rather simple animation. The story is told by a narrator with a lovely British voice that...
- 1985
Natural History
Natural History71985HD
An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.
- 2021
Polar Bear Bears Boredom
Polar Bear Bears Boredom72021HD
A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking...
- 2007
A Child's Metaphysics
A Child's Metaphysics6.82007HD
A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are...
- 1993
Karo and Piyobupt: A House
Karo and Piyobupt: A House5.3331993HD
The first short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura
- 2003
Pieces
Pieces5.6672003HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 2016
Zodiac One Third
Zodiac One Third72016HD
This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from...
- 1995
Kipling Jr.
Kipling Jr.51995HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 2017
Notes on Monstropedia
Notes on Monstropedia02017HD
An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.