Yamamura Animation Movies
- 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 "un...
- 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 bac...
- 2013
Five Fire Fish
Five Fire Fish02013HD
Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.
- 1993
Karo and Piyobupt: A House
Karo and Piyobupt: A House5.3331993HD
The first short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura
- 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,...
- 2024
Extremely Short
Extremely Short82024HD
Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable ‘da’ – a breath...
- 1990
Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-
Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-5.251990HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 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
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...
- 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.
- 2003
Pieces
Pieces5.6672003HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 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...
- 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 anim...
- 1995
Kid's Castle
Kid's Castle5.51995HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 1995
Kipling Jr.
Kipling Jr.51995HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
- 1985
Natural History
Natural History71985HD
An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.
- 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 provide...
- 1985
Serenade
Serenade81985HD
One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...
- 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 th...
- 2017
Notes on Monstropedia
Notes on Monstropedia02017HD
An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.