Koji Yamamura Movies

One day out of the blue Prof. Banno of came to school with his hair shaven. Students made fun of his bald head. Prof. Banno flew in a hot air...

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

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

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

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

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...

A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.

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...

Short by Koji Yamamura

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.

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

When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. ...

"You're right. There was a bug–I killed it." Late at night, only one voice wafts around the room. What lies on the other end of the telephone...

A young man is drawing sketches of birds in the woods. The spotted pattern of the bird’s wings begins to scatter. He gradually becomes...

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the...

Summer is coming to an end. A little girl on the beach remembers the days spent giggling and dancing with her friend. The goodbyes and memories...

Once upon a time, a man killed the king's pet dog. He was executed and reincarnated as a canis but with the memory of his past life as a man.

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.

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...