Koji Yamamura Trailers
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Koji Yamamura is a Japanese independent animator who, after leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model sheets and background art for and sometimes produces his own short films and has worked on many commissions such as music videos, television advertisements, title sequences and station idents, both on his own and under or with other directors. He is also a regular illustrator of children's literature and textbooks.
Most Popular Koji Yamamura Trailers
Total trailers found: 218
30 October 2021
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 three parts of the "Divine Comedy" (Hell, Purgatory and Heaven).
03 August 2022
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me.
15 March 2014
At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood.
02 March 2018
Microorganisms propagate, gather, and transform into an A4 sheet of paper. You can feel signs of life within the page.
03 March 2017
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.
09 February 2019
We have limited control over our bodies, and we can't change ourselves at will. While I yearn for complete freedom, I also want to make peace with my frustration.
12 February 2022
It's winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.
12 February 2022
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 body.
17 March 2017
Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially.
03 March 2017
Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop.
02 March 2018
For her, dance is life. And life is dance. Every tingle in her heart gets her swinging to the beat.
10 February 2019
In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet.
07 March 2014
‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's hospitalization makes the daughter remember the past, and think a little about what lies ahead.
09 February 2020
There are three "Motifs". The complete differences between them make themselves self-doubt. The melody begins, and the music motif could not resist the impulse to dance, but the others also catching up .
08 March 2021
When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft.
08 March 2021
No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release.
26 September 2019
Ivory consumption in Japan is a bit of a problem. It needs to be stamped out.
10 February 2019
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.
29 May 2014
He lives his life everyday like it's nothing special. Today he eats, gets dressed, and heads out once again.
28 June 2021
I'm the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by pretending the selfish girl and my friends with complicated family backgrounds don't bother me.
08 March 2021
When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o.
12 February 2022
The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions.
05 March 2016
A woman pours milk from the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain a man milks and pours it into a tank.
09 February 2020
Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people.
10 February 2019
Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder.
06 August 2018
The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
01 January 2011
"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long.
09 February 2020
My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and decided to photograph and develop pictures of her at two different ages.
02 March 2018
A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.
16 November 2018
This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.
05 November 2021
Kaibun are palidromes in which words sound the same when read backwards and forwards. Sometimes the meaning changes, and sometimes not.
12 February 2022
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 back then.
15 March 2014
On various forms expanded in all directions and a dance by a man in tights.
08 March 2021
That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer.
10 February 2019
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 looking up at the sky.
10 February 2019
One day a girl notices a distortion in her surrounding environment, which prompts her to start searching for her own connection with the world.
23 December 2006
A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.
15 March 2014
The gaze of a woman from a window at other windows leads to a recollection of various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect, conserve, and sometimes shine like a lighthouse.
01 January 2006
A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop
02 March 2018
We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to �
16 February 2018
Everyone crosses the Red Bridge and yet no one likes him. One day, he falls into the deep valley.
31 March 2015
A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques.
03 June 2023
An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era.
20 October 2007
A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are provided by fishes, a child who cannot say anything because of a zipper across his mouth.
06 June 2005
A very old crocodile is shunned by his family after eating one of them.
23 May 2024
Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable ‘da’ – a breath that could just as well be the first as the last.
27 January 2023
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.
07 February 2004
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world.
17 March 2012
The film is of the memory love and gratitude of the dusty dog, and many other dogs, tracing their senses and memories, dedicating to you who gave love to them.
09 June 2024
What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again.
10 February 2019
On days I don't want to leave the house, I enjoy watching TV and videos on my smartphone. I'm supposed to be at home but the screen keeps taking me elsewhere and I lose my grip on my whereabouts and reality.
14 March 2015
A mysterious yellow ball falls down into the present city across time and space. It involves many people and unfolds various dramas.
01 January 1985
Several painted figures are superimposed.
07 June 2003
A series of nine flipbook-like vignettes showcasing simple revelations of movement and color. Koji Yamamura's animation refers back to the phenakistoscope, one of the earliest mechanisms used to make drawings move.
07 March 2015
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.
09 February 2019
How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.
29 May 2014
This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time.
12 February 2022
One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited.
05 March 2016
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, Charon, which hovers around Pluto.
03 March 2017
One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.
