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)
Haru no Umi ... (Director)

2025

REST ... (Producer)
OCTOPOLIS - Prologue - ... (Producer)

2024

Extremely Short ... (Director)

2023

Joy of Life ... (Producer)
LOVE★STAR ... (Producer)
Dozens of Norths ... (Original Music Composer)
Alien Human ... (Producer)
My Inner Ear Quartet ... (Director)
To the Moon and Back ... (Producer)
BLUE ... (Producer)
Methodology of Opening Jars ... (Producer)

2022

In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket ... (Producer)
Poo Down Hill Up ... (Producer)
Winter Star ... (Producer)
The House of Loss ... (Producer)
919 ... (Producer)
Stained Smell ... (Producer)
Before Dawn ... (Producer)
Chinatown, Whereabouts Unknown ... (Producer)
Me and Me ... (Producer)
The Ant Tower ... (Producer)

2021

MUNCH MUNCH ... (Producer)
A Bite of Bone ... (Producer)
Our Little Pond ... (Producer)
Are you here, Ser Brunetto? ... (Production Supervisor)
POP JUNKIE ... (Producer)
Amane Diary ... (Producer)
Dear Viruses ... (Producer)
Red ... (Producer)
So I Picked Up the Worm ... (Producer)
blink ... (Producer)
Brother ... (Producer)
Coping Mechanism ... (Producer)
Polar Bear Bears Boredom ... (Director)
Our 2 ... (Producer)
The Mouse and a Prism ... (Producer)
Round Trip ... (Producer)
Conflicted ... (Producer)
Squishy Fish Eggs ... (Producer)

2020

Notre maison ... (Producer)
The Big Tree in Front of the House ... (Producer)
Strangers in the Alley ... (Producer)
Empty Hands ... (Producer)
WOKE ... (Producer)
I Am a Motif ... (Producer)
My Hand, Her Hand ... (Producer)
Iron Pulse ... (Producer)
Strawberry Candy ... (Producer)
Long Live the Cat ... (Producer)
A DOG ... (Producer)
Representation of Light ... (Producer)

2019

Boozy Woozy Wonderland ... (Producer)
Bath House of Whales ... (Executive Producer)
The Body in the Mind ... (Producer)
Psyche ... (Producer)
Flow of Life ... (Producer)
Where is my home? ... (Producer)
The Death Vendor ... (Producer)
The On-hold Music of Terror ... (Producer)
Indoor Days ... (Producer)
Dreams into Drawing ... (Director)
Hear the Snow Melt ... (Producer)
Summer Sky Reverie ... (Producer)
Stay With Me ... (Producer)
Dissipate ... (Producer)
That summer there were two of us ... (Producer)
Pickle Plum Parade ... (Producer)
See My World ... (Producer)
Keep Forgetting ... (Producer)
Behind Us ... (Producer)
Pupa ... (Producer)
House Rattler ... (Producer)
A Pawn ... (Producer)
What's that smell? ... (Producer)
WildAid 'Hankograph' ... (Director)

2018

The Red Bridge is Falling Down ... (Producer)
Quest of the Battling Gods ... (Producer)
Typhoon No. 14 ... (Producer)
My Little Goat ... (Producer)
Take Me Home ... (Producer)
Live or Let Live ... (Producer)
Gals ... (Producer)
To day plus one ... (Producer)
The Pearl Remains ... (Producer)
Dance to Life ... (Producer)
Fluffiction ... (Producer)
Lion Nanny's Journey ... (Producer)
light of temptation ... (Producer)
Angel inside a box ... (Producer)
Time Autobahn ... (Producer)
On the way home ... (Producer)
The Body Swap Center ... (Producer)
7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports ... (Producer)
Shiosai-bound ... (Producer)
Memory Drawers ... (Producer)
In There ... (Producer)
A4 Microcosm ... (Producer)
Bero Bero ... (Producer)
Namahage's Obon Homecoming ... (Producer)
Jinxes ... (Producer)
SIBLINGS ... (Producer)

2017

AEON ... (Producer)
The Story of a Motorbike ... (Producer)
Candy.zip ... (Producer)
There was a man ... (Producer)
Self-Honest Me ... (Producer)
Squid Introspection ... (Producer)
Water Dream ... (Director)
四季 ... (Supervising Producer)
RINGING CITY ... (Producer)
Cogito Wonderland ... (Producer)
Nosferatu Maiden ... (Producer)
yelp ... (Producer)
South Forest ... (Producer)
Cosmopolite ... (Producer)
Notes on Monstropedia ... (Director)
flower ... (Producer)

2016

CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness ... (Producer)
If Everyone Looked the Same ... (Producer)
Starting Over ... (Producer)
Satie's "Parade" ... (Director)
man of many arms ... (Producer)
mayumi ... (Producer)
Zodiac One Third ... (Director)
Milky Ways ... (Producer)
Silence ... (Producer)
First Hand Memories ... (Producer)
Umbrella ... (Producer)
RADIO WAVE ... (Producer)
Awakened Seed ... (Producer)
Red Forest ... (Producer)
At The Mouth of Summer ... (Producer)

2015

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman as Self
Crossing Sight ... (Producer)
Color Blots ... (Producer)
Moonlit Night and Opal ... (Producer)
Tepid Bath ... (Producer)
The Yellow Ball ... (Producer)
Missing You ... (Producer)
Black Cat ... (Producer)
Fox Fears ... (Producer)
Zdravstvuite! ... (Producer)

2014

toco toco
00:08 ... (Producer)
My Milk Cup Cow ... (Producer)
Crazy Little Thing ... (Producer)
Through the Windows ... (Producer)
aaH / Hee ... (Producer)
Spoon ... (Producer)
Reinventing the Square Wheel ... (Producer)
Flower Bud ... (Producer)
Exit My Room ... (Producer)
See ya, Mr. Banno! ... (Producer)
Everyday Sins ... (Producer)
Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA ... (Producer)
My Dear ... (Producer)

2013

A Gum Boy ... (Producer)
My Dear Flesh ... (Producer)
I’m Nothing ... (Producer)
Kicking Rocks ... (Producer)
Cubic Centimeter ... (Producer)
USALULLABY ... (Producer)
The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki ... (Director)
Maze King ... (Producer)
Five Fire Fish ... (Director)
My Frame ... (Producer)
From a Stone ... (Producer)
Ream ... (Producer)
Wild Wild Ham ... (Producer)
It’s Time for Supper ... (Producer)

2006

Tokyo Loop ... (Director)
Fig ... (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)

2001

Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows ... (Animation 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: A House ... (Director)
Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches ... (Director)
Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination ... (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

Cyclops ... (Visual Development)
Aquatic ... (Director)
Heavenly Bodies' Score ... (Producer)
Quick-Sand ... (Co-Director)

1986

Freshwater ... (Director)

1985

Serenade ... (Director)
Natural History ... (Director)

1950

Red Peony of Night
Mado Kara Tobidase as Thief