Yamamura Animation Movie Trailers

Most Popular Yamamura Animation Trailers

Total trailers found: 25

Fig Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop

A Child's Metaphysics Trailer (2007)

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.

The Old Crocodile Trailer (2005)

06 June 2005

A very old crocodile is shunned by his family after eating one of them.

Extremely Short Trailer (2024)

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.

Dozens of Norths Trailer (2023)

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.

Natural History Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

Several painted figures are superimposed.

Pieces Trailer (2003)

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.

Water Dream Trailer (2017)

01 January 2017

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 Crumb's "Vox Balaenae (1971)" .

Five Fire Fish Trailer (2013)

01 January 2013

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

Notes on Monstropedia Trailer (2017)

23 September 2017

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

Muybridge's Strings Trailer (2011)

17 September 2011

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.

Mount Head Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head.

Bavel's Book Trailer (1996)

14 October 1996

Short by Koji Yamamura

Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor Trailer (2007)

17 November 2007

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient.

Zodiac One Third Trailer (2016)

01 January 2016

This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from the 2016 Champion and Patron Members of Reel Asian.

Kipling Jr. Trailer (1995)

13 July 1995

Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. sit down to discuss their highly anticipated May 6 showdown.

Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research Trailer (1990)

07 June 1990

Buildings, black crows, a flood of bar codes, clone-looking businessmen, shopping-addicted ladies...these images which probably symbolizes excessive, standardized and overcrowded modern cities are condensed in this animation.

Kid's Castle Trailer (1995)

21 December 1995

Short by Koji Yamamura

Heavenly Bodies' Score Trailer (1987)

31 December 1987

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

Man & Whale Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past.

Karo and Piyobupt: A House Trailer (1993)

02 February 1993

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

Polar Bear Bears Boredom Trailer (2021)

08 August 2021

A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking animals" in scroll painting-style; this time, "Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play on Japanese and English language word-plays: "Hokyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima.

Satie's "Parade" Trailer (2016)

25 November 2016

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.

Serenade Trailer (1985)

10 May 1985

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

The Elevator Trailer (1991)

31 December 1991

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