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

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2006

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

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

1993

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