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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

Awaiting ... (Producer)
The Man Who Ate an Apple ... (Producer)
Recruit Rhapsody ... (Producer)
A Wind Egg ... (Producer)
The Cloudy Dog Talk About ... (Producer)
Flower and Steam ... (Producer)
Spirits from the Night ... (Producer)
People who are Eating ... (Producer)
Sunset Flower Blooming ... (Producer)

2011

Spots Spots ... (Producer)
Scripta volant ... (Producer)
Muybridge's Strings ... (Director)
Anthology with Cranes ... (Director)
From the Dolphin ... (Producer)
The Grouse in Snow Mountain ... (Producer)

2010

In a Pig's Eye ... (Producer)
Woman Who Stole Fingers ... (Producer)
Getting Dressed ... (Producer)
Googuri Googuri ... (Producer)
Bring Me Up ... (Producer)

2007

Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor ... (Director)
Man & Whale ... (Director)
A Child's Metaphysics ... (Director)

2006

Tokyo Loop ... (Director)

2005

The Old Crocodile ... (Director)
Frank & Wendy as Japanese Tourist (voice)

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

Kid's Castle ... (Director)
The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish ... (Animation)
Kipling Jr. as Yohann Kipling

1993

Karo and Piyobupt: A House ... (Director)
Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination ... (Director)
Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches ... (Director)

1991

The Elevator ... (Director)

1987

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

1986

Freshwater ... (Director)

1985

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

1950

Red Peony of Night
Mado Kara Tobidase as Thief