Koji Yamamura Movies

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this...

This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom...

Lion Nanny rides the train and embarks on a life journey while interacting with those around her.

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

A spring night, I walked past a ‘god’. I wonder if it was a cat or a man. Or was it a wind I felt in a slumber? They were certainly...

This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because...

Heartbroken, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method...

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.

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a...

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...

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did...

Yasu is a cat over 20 years old. He's still alive and kicking in the house he was left behind.

A small family-owned iron factory was closed down. What will remain of it?

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He...

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

At night, the child sees the sandy figure coming into his room. It lures his stuffed animal away from the shelf and they are gone beyond the hill. ...

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...

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

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...

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...