Movies: Yamamura Animation

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

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. He cuts it off; it grows back. After a while, he gives up and lets it grow, but the crowds that gather on top of his head to enj...

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal ...

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

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

A segment for Image Forum Festival 2005's Tokyo Loop...

Short by Koji Yamamura...

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

Short by Koji Yamamura...

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

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 o...

Short by Koji Yamamura...

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

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

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. Chinese Zodiac is 60-years cycle by 10 heavenly el...

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

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....

Several painted figures are superimposed....

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....