Koji Yamamura Movies

A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should.

Various visions of life and death, as seen from an operation table. Did the operation succeed ? Is the patient still alive ?

The little girl has a complex because she doesn’t look like her mom, and the mom wants her daughter to look more ladylike. Their faces...

On a summer day an strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of...

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

The uncertainty, struggles, and joy of the moment upon becoming an adult. Between lullabies and songs I hum to myself. Between a man and myself. That...

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...

It consists of only woman who keeps caressing a resisting cat.

Short by Koji Yamamura

Playtime ends at the five o'clock chime. And there comes the indefinable time between vanishing playtime and dinner time at home.

This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George...

The film expresses the sense of being left behind. It stems from the realities of my childhood and how they did not match up with what I was feeling...

Many arms cling to a man. He doesn’t like it but he believes the situation will never change.

A man blown by a blizzard on Snow Mountain wants to return to his warm home.

Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from...

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...

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy...

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

The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate. There is nothing remarkable about her. However, she has noticed there is something strange...

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