Koji Yamamura Movies

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did...

The third and last installment in the Karo and Piyobupt series by Koji Yamamura

The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters.

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the...

A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.

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...

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.

All of a sudden, a boy starts to play hopscotch. Kicking stone[s] is. . . simply play, but it doesn’t work as simply as it seems. He...

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

A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl...

What should one do if they encounter a jar that won’t open?

Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.

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

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

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

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.

The beach is packed in a Chinese resort. People are enjoying the summer holidays. An abrupt thundershower makes them run around in a flurry.

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.

Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people. This work expresses the...