Koji Yamamura Movies

Nobody in a class loves ‘Kuchao’ who cannot live without. . . gum. When all [his] classmates fly their balloons, he wouldn’t...

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

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

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...

The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.

Memories from the ancient times have been engraved on his body. "Where do we come from?"he asks,"Where are we going?" Would the light guide us there?...

Guiltee is an art university student who is slacking off on her school work and feels horrible about it. Plus, she's confused about her family and...

A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world....

Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not. I brought...

Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method...

Short by Koji Yamamura

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...

A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom, or why he is waiting is not very important. He...

A huge pig lies by a house. The family of the house go about their everyday life, pretending to ignore the pig’s existence.

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

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...

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

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...

In the world of constant black rain, people live under umbrellas’ protection. One day a man threw his umbrella away, which resulted to brought...

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.