Movies: Koji Yamamura

  • 2007
    Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

    Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor (2007)

    Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

    6.82007HD

    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 ...

    Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor
  • 2002
    Mount Head

    Mount Head (2002)

    Mount Head

    6.42002HD

    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...

    Mount Head
  • 2018
    My Little Goat

    My Little Goat (2018)

    My Little Goat

    8.12018HD

    A mother goat rescues her kids from the belly of a wolf, but where is her eldest son Toruku?...

    My Little Goat
  • 2003
    Winter Days

    Winter Days (2003)

    Winter Days

    5.72003HD

    Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the t...

    Winter Days
  • 2014
    00:08

    00:08 (2014)

    00:08

    5.52014HD

    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. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant....

    00:08
  • 2011
    Muybridge's Strings

    Muybridge's Strings (2011)

    Muybridge's Strings

    62011HD

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

    Muybridge's Strings
  • 2005
    The Old Crocodile

    The Old Crocodile (2005)

    The Old Crocodile

    6.52005HD

    An short movie that is illustrated in black and white using rather simple animation. The story is told by a narrator with a lovely British voice that reminded me of Malcolm McDowell and he does all the voices of all the characters as well. The story ...

    The Old Crocodile
  • 2015
    Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

    Film Adventurer Karel Zeman (2015)

    Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

    7.92015HD

    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....

    Film Adventurer Karel Zeman
  • 2014
    My Milk Cup Cow

    My Milk Cup Cow (2014)

    My Milk Cup Cow

    6.52014HD

    The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and drinks up milk, but there isn't any cow. Her father tells her a variety of lies, which Nunu finds increasingly difficult to believe....

    My Milk Cup Cow
  • 1996
    Bavel's Book

    Bavel's Book (1996)

    Bavel's Book

    5.61996HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura...

    Bavel's Book
  • 2021
    Dozens of Norths

    Dozens of Norths (2021)

    Dozens of Norths

    2.72021HD

    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....

    Dozens of Norths
  • 2016
    Satie's

    Satie's "Parade" (2016)

    Satie's "Parade"

    6.22016HD

    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....

    Satie's
  • 2007
    A Child's Metaphysics

    A Child's Metaphysics (2007)

    A Child's Metaphysics

    6.82007HD

    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. Ecology and philo...

    A Child's Metaphysics
  • 1990
    Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-

    Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search- (1990)

    Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-

    5.21990HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura...

    Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-
  • 1995
    Kid's Castle

    Kid's Castle (1995)

    Kid's Castle

    5.51995HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura...

    Kid's Castle
  • 1993
    Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination

    Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination (1993)

    Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination

    5.51993HD

    The third and last installment in the Karo and Piyobupt series by Koji Yamamura...

    Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination
  • 1993
    Karo and Piyobupt: A House

    Karo and Piyobupt: A House (1993)

    Karo and Piyobupt: A House

    5.21993HD

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

    Karo and Piyobupt: A House
  • 1993
    Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches

    Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches (1993)

    Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches

    5.51993HD

    The second short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura...

    Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches
  • 1987
    Aquatic

    Aquatic (1987)

    Aquatic

    61987HD

    An apple flows down the stream of a mill where innumerable illusions of fish appear and disappear in the sky reflected in the water....

    Aquatic
  • 2024
    Extremely Short

    Extremely Short (2024)

    Extremely Short

    82024HD

    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....

    Extremely Short