Koji Yamamura Movies

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.

A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.

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

Clouds flow by. Pictures evaporate. When the act of drawing is in tune with nature’s ways, an ancient poetry echoes through the sky and in due...

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...

Short animation by Simon Feat at Tokyo University of the Arts

This video installation is an experiment that imagines the canvas as a box and animates images within that space.

I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home. Days go by even while I wonder about, cry,...

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.

How to spend a ten-minute break at club activities. Let us take off [our] shoes and socks, and enjoy the fresh breeze between our toes. We are all...

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

The film is set in China in the 1960s. An old woman cools herself in the garden. The sunset makes the sky orange. Sunset flower starts to bloom. ...

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

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

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...

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

An one-armed mountaineer encounters a lost arm on a mountain of salt. Who did it belong to? Why was it left there?

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite,...

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