Koji Yamamura Movies

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...

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

Several painted figures are superimposed.

The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so...

Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.

The film is set in China in the 1960s. An old woman cools herself in the garden. The sunset makes the sky orange. Sunset flower starts to bloom. ...

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...

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

This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

A music video by Koji Yamamura.

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...

I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home. Days go by even while I wonder about, cry,...

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

A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.

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

On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.

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

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and...

Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end.

Ivory consumption in Japan is a bit of a problem. It needs to be stamped out.