Koji Yamamura Movies
- 2025

OCTOPOLIS - Prologue -
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Human-like creatures inhabit this planet. Their peaceful lives are senselessly destroyed by octopus suckers that appear out of the blue. Then comes a...
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- 2017

yelp
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Once we used to be happy and grateful for the pure act of eating.
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- 2017

Squid Introspection
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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.
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- 2006

Fig
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The Tokyo Tower and the window transform themselves into the characters, and roam in the night of Tokyo.
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- 2023

BLUE
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Something blue strays from the herd and ends up in someone’s house.
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- 2017

Cosmopolite
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A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.
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- 1986

Freshwater
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Early short animation by Koji Yamamura.
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- 2017

South Forest
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The story about a Palestinian girl who feeds animals at the zoo.
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- 2022

The Ant Tower
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Tomorrow, they'll finish building the most beautiful tower on this planet. I've never seen it, but I bet it's beautiful. I couldn't wait to see the...
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- 2014

Everyday Sins
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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...
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- 1999

Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee
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A music video by Koji Yamamura.
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- 2011

The Grouse in Snow Mountain
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A man blown by a blizzard on Snow Mountain wants to return to his warm home.
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- 2017

Notes on Monstropedia
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An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.
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- 1987

Quick-Sand
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This is an animated work created using sand. We built our own multi-plane shooting table and adjusted the transmitted and reflected light using a...
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- 2023

Methodology of Opening Jars
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What should one do if they encounter a jar that won’t open?
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- 2026

Haru no Umi
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- 2012

Sunset Flower Blooming
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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. ...
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- 2013

From a Stone
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Four years ago while out for a walk in Ome, I picked up an intriguing stone of 30cm across. Then I wanted to pursue its image until its ultimate end.
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- 2013

USALULLABY
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Increasing in number, small rabbits take care of a great dolphin. Can the dolphin get to sleep by rabbits’ gentle caress? May many people...
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- 2013

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