Yamamura Animation Movies

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 bac...

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 "un...

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.

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 anim...

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.

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

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

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...

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...

An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,...

Short by Koji Yamamura

Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable ‘da’ – a breath...

Short by Koji Yamamura

Short by Koji Yamamura

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

Short by Koji Yamamura

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 provide...

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

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