Koji Yamamura Movies

Now a grown woman, I sit on the train recollecting my childhood. That morning field baking in the sun. Making one bamboo-leaf boat after the other....

One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world. But,...

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

The angel of wind exhales, sending fluffy dandelion seeds into a slow dance. Wind and light guide the downy seeds into the magical world of botany.

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...

A speeding car leaps onto the highway of Time and hurtles forward -- its velocity is limitless.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Goldfish born in Tenjinnuma, a famous goldfish production area, were auctioned off and sold to Yokota Gumi. The goldfish scooped by elementary school...

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from...

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

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....

The film is about a family, that runs a chicken farm. The boy hankers after birds and his little sister keeps an eye on him. The father loves eggs....

Short by Koji Yamamura

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...

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

Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn't capture the essence at all.

The story of Nosferatu vampires glimpsed by a boy who gets lost in a forest.

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

Here, everyone is an outlander. But something's not right. Everyone else has a place to sit at the table, a home to return to at will. Not him....