Koji Yamamura Movies

This work is a missive to the life form we call viruses in the hope that we can coexist. The relationship between humans and viruses is poetically...

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...

Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But,...

A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?

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...

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

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a...

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

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he...

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.

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the...

Since I was born, the moon has circled the Earth 9,125 times. We all grew older with each orbit, but the moon never seems to age. A story about my...

The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest.

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...

This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear...

Increasing in number, small rabbits take care of a great dolphin. Can the dolphin get to sleep by rabbits’ gentle caress? May many people...

Several painted figures are superimposed.

He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.