Koji Yamamura Movies

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

A bride runs at full speed, with her veil flapping, and with steam. When you happen to encounter a bride in her wedding dress, you would love to...

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...

She keeps a secret that can't be told, and gradually forgets it. The girl is no longer sure whether what she remembers happened in reality or in a...

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 man is walking along the beach. Then a demon, the man’s pain, appears and chases him. The pain is unbearable, coursing through his entire...

Microorganisms propagate, gather, and transform into an A4 sheet of paper. You can feel signs of life within the page.

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

Story of a girl’s imagination. ‘Googuri Googuri’ is a made up word, a secret word shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the...

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

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...

Tomorrow, they'll finish building the most beautiful tower on this planet. I've never seen it, but I bet it's beautiful. I couldn't wait to see the...

One rainy day, a squid falls on a crosswalk. A businessman and a homeless man see the squid and get lost in their own fantasies.

Commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, the film is a reinterpretation of Dante and Beatrice's reunion story, from "Vita Nova" to the...

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

Buildings, black crows, a flood of bar codes, clone-looking businessmen, shopping-addicted ladies...these images which probably symbolizes excessive,...

Suffering from her delusion, K tries to depict her disorder in her paintings. In her dream, she finds a frame, which makes her believe that drawing...

When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance...

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

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts