Koji Yamamura
Born: 1964-06-04 in Nagoya, Japan
Known For: Directing
Biography
Koji Yamamura is a Japanese independent animator who, after leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model sheets and background art for and sometimes produces his own short films and has worked on many commissions such as music videos, television advertisements, title sequences and station idents, both on his own and under or with other directors. He is also a regular illustrator of children's literature and textbooks.
Filmography
2026
- Eri, The Cow ... (Supervising Producer)
2025
- REST ... (Producer)
- OCTOPOLIS - Prologue - ... (Producer)
2024
- Extremely Short ... (Director)
- My Inner Ear Quartet ... (Director)
2023
- Dozens of Norths ... (Original Music Composer)
- Joy of Life ... (Producer)
- Alien Human ... (Producer)
2022
- Before Dawn ... (Producer)
- The House of Loss ... (Producer)
- Stained Smell ... (Producer)
- Poo Down Hill Up ... (Producer)
- Winter Star ... (Producer)
- In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket ... (Producer)
- 919 ... (Producer)
2021
- Our Little Pond ... (Producer)
- Squishy Fish Eggs ... (Producer)
- The Mouse and a Prism ... (Producer)
- Polar Bear Bears Boredom ... (Director)
- Amane Diary ... (Producer)
- POP JUNKIE ... (Producer)
- MUNCH MUNCH ... (Producer)
- Our 2 ... (Producer)
- Round Trip ... (Producer)
- blink ... (Producer)
- So I Picked Up the Worm ... (Producer)
- A Bite of Bone ... (Producer)
- Coping Mechanism ... (Producer)
- Red ... (Producer)
- Brother ... (Producer)
- Conflicted ... (Producer)
- Dear Viruses ... (Producer)
- Are you here, Ser Brunetto? ... (Production Supervisor)
2020
- I Am a Motif ... (Producer)
- Long Live the Cat ... (Producer)
- Empty Hands ... (Producer)
- Representation of Light ... (Producer)
- Iron Pulse ... (Producer)
- My Hand, Her Hand ... (Producer)
- Strangers in the Alley ... (Producer)
- The Big Tree in Front of the House ... (Producer)
- WOKE ... (Producer)
- Notre maison ... (Producer)
- Strawberry Candy ... (Producer)
- A DOG ... (Producer)
2019
- Indoor Days ... (Producer)
- Pupa ... (Producer)
- Keep Forgetting ... (Producer)
- The Death Vendor ... (Producer)
- A Pawn ... (Producer)
- The On-hold Music of Terror ... (Producer)
- That summer there were two of us ... (Producer)
- Boozy Woozy Wonderland ... (Producer)
- Pickle Plum Parade ... (Producer)
- See My World ... (Producer)
- Bath House of Whales ... (Executive Producer)
- Flow of Life ... (Producer)
- House Rattler ... (Producer)
- Psyche ... (Producer)
- The Body in the Mind ... (Producer)
- Dissipate ... (Producer)
- Dreams into Drawing ... (Director)
- Where is my home? ... (Producer)
- Summer Sky Reverie ... (Producer)
- Behind Us ... (Producer)
- Stay With Me ... (Producer)
- WildAid 'Hankograph' ... (Director)
- What's that smell? ... (Producer)
- Hear the Snow Melt ... (Producer)
2018
- Quest of the Battling Gods ... (Producer)
- My Little Goat ... (Producer)
- Memory Drawers ... (Producer)
- Jinxes ... (Producer)
- 7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports ... (Producer)
- SIBLINGS ... (Producer)
- Live or Let Live ... (Producer)
- The Body Swap Center ... (Producer)
- To day plus one ... (Producer)
- Angel inside a box ... (Producer)
- Lion Nanny's Journey ... (Producer)
- Namahage's Obon Homecoming ... (Producer)
- Shiosai-bound ... (Producer)
- light of temptation ... (Producer)
- Typhoon No. 14 ... (Producer)
- Bero Bero ... (Producer)
- In There ... (Producer)
- On the way home ... (Producer)
- A4 Microcosm ... (Producer)
- Dance to Life ... (Producer)
- Gals ... (Producer)
- Fluffiction ... (Producer)
- The Pearl Remains ... (Producer)
- The Red Bridge is Falling Down ... (Producer)
- Time Autobahn ... (Producer)
- Take Me Home ... (Producer)
2017
- AEON ... (Producer)
- 四季 ... (Supervising Producer)
- Nosferatu Maiden ... (Producer)
- Cosmopolite ... (Producer)
- yelp ... (Producer)
- Candy.zip ... (Producer)
- flower ... (Producer)
- Notes on Monstropedia ... (Director)
- The Story of a Motorbike ... (Producer)
- Water Dream ... (Director)
- There was a man ... (Producer)
- Cogito Wonderland ... (Producer)
- Squid Introspection ... (Producer)
- South Forest ... (Producer)
- RINGING CITY ... (Producer)
- Self-Honest Me ... (Producer)
2016
- Satie's "Parade" ... (Director)
- man of many arms ... (Producer)
- Starting Over ... (Producer)
- First Hand Memories ... (Producer)
- Silence ... (Producer)
- Umbrella ... (Producer)
- At The Mouth of Summer ... (Producer)
- Zodiac One Third ... (Director)
- mayumi ... (Producer)
- If Everyone Looked the Same ... (Producer)
- CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness ... (Producer)
- Awakened Seed ... (Producer)
- RADIO WAVE ... (Producer)
- Milky Ways ... (Producer)
- Red Forest ... (Producer)
2015
- Film Adventurer Karel Zeman as Self
- Missing You ... (Producer)
- Fox Fears ... (Producer)
- Color Blots ... (Producer)
- Moonlit Night and Opal ... (Producer)
- Zdravstvuite! ... (Producer)
- The Yellow Ball ... (Producer)
- Black Cat ... (Producer)
- Tepid Bath ... (Producer)
- Crossing Sight ... (Producer)
2014
- toco toco
- 00:08 ... (Producer)
- See ya, Mr. Banno! ... (Producer)
- Flower Bud ... (Producer)
- Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA ... (Producer)
- Through the Windows ... (Producer)
- Reinventing the Square Wheel ... (Producer)
- aaH / Hee ... (Producer)
- Exit My Room ... (Producer)
- My Milk Cup Cow ... (Producer)
- Everyday Sins ... (Producer)
- Spoon ... (Producer)
- My Dear ... (Producer)
- Crazy Little Thing ... (Producer)
2013
- From a Stone ... (Producer)
- Kicking Rocks ... (Producer)
- The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki ... (Director)
- I’m Nothing ... (Producer)
- My Dear Flesh ... (Producer)
- Cubic Centimeter ... (Producer)
- It’s Time for Supper ... (Producer)
- My Frame ... (Producer)
- Wild Wild Ham ... (Producer)
- USALULLABY ... (Producer)
- Maze King ... (Producer)
- Ream ... (Producer)
- A Gum Boy ... (Producer)
- Five Fire Fish ... (Director)
2012
- The Cloudy Dog Talk About ... (Producer)
- A Wind Egg ... (Producer)
- Recruit Rhapsody ... (Producer)
- Flower and Steam ... (Producer)
- Awaiting ... (Producer)
- People who are Eating ... (Producer)
- Spirits from the Night ... (Producer)
- Sunset Flower Blooming ... (Producer)
- The Man Who Ate an Apple ... (Producer)
2011
- Muybridge's Strings ... (Director)
- Anthology with Cranes ... (Director)
- The Grouse in Snow Mountain ... (Producer)
- Scripta volant ... (Producer)
- From the Dolphin ... (Producer)
- Spots Spots ... (Producer)
2010
- Getting Dressed ... (Producer)
- Bring Me Up ... (Producer)
- Googuri Googuri ... (Producer)
- Woman Who Stole Fingers ... (Producer)
- In a Pig's Eye ... (Producer)
2007
- Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor ... (Director)
- A Child's Metaphysics ... (Director)
- Man & Whale ... (Director)
2006
- Fig ... (Director)
- Tokyo Loop ... (Director)
2005
- Frank & Wendy as Japanese Tourist (voice)
- The Old Crocodile ... (Director)
2004
- Tracing Jake ... (Animation Director)
2003
- Winter Days ... (Director)
- Pieces ... (Director)
2002
- Mount Head ... (Director)
2000
- Your Choice! ... (Director)
1999
- Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee ... (Director)
1996
- Bavel's Book ... (Director)
1995
- The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish ... (Animation)
- Kipling Jr. as Yohann Kipling
- Kid's Castle ... (Director)
1993
- Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination ... (Director)
- Karo and Piyobupt: A House ... (Director)
- Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches ... (Director)
1991
- The Elevator ... (Director)
1990
- Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research ... (Director)
1989
- Japanese-English Pictionary ... (Director)
1988
- SONODA Video - Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter ... (Director)
1987
- Aquatic ... (Director)
- Quick-Sand ... (Co-Director)
- Heavenly Bodies' Score ... (Producer)
1986
- Freshwater ... (Director)
1985
- Serenade ... (Director)
- Natural History ... (Director)
1950
- Red Peony of Night
- Mado Kara Tobidase as Thief