Koji Yamamura
Known for: Directing
Born: June 4, 1964
Place of birth: Nagoya, Japan
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.
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Filmography
227 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
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Haru no Umi
2026
6.0
Eri, The Cow
2026
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REST
2025NR
OCTOPOLIS - Prologue -
2025
7.0
Extremely Short
2024
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My Inner Ear Quartet
2023NR
Joy of Life
2023
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Alien Human
2023
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LOVE★STAR
2023
6.2
Dozens of Norths
2023
8.0
To the Moon and Back
2023
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BLUE
2023
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Methodology of Opening Jars
2023
6.2
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
2022
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Stained Smell
2022
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Before Dawn
2022
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Winter Star
2022
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Poo Down Hill Up
2022
5.0
919
2022
7.0
The House of Loss
2022
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The Ant Tower
2022
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Chinatown, Whereabouts Unknown
2022
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Me and Me
2022
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Round Trip
2021
7.0
A Bite of Bone
2021
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Are you here, Ser Brunetto?
2021
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Our 2
2021
7.0
Polar Bear Bears Boredom
2021
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Our Little Pond
2021
7.0
So I Picked Up the Worm
2021
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The Mouse and a Prism
2021
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Squishy Fish Eggs
2021
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Coping Mechanism
2021
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Conflicted
2021
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blink
2021
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Red
2021
10.0
Brother
2021
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Amane Diary
2021
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Dear Viruses
2021
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POP JUNKIE
2021
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MUNCH MUNCH
2021
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Strawberry Candy
2020
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A DOG
2020
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Iron Pulse
2020
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Long Live the Cat
2020
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WOKE
2020
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Representation of Light
2020
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Strangers in the Alley
2020
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I Am a Motif
2020
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Notre maison
2020
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The Big Tree in Front of the House
2020
5.0
My Hand, Her Hand
2020
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Empty Hands
2020
6.0
WildAid 'Hankograph'
2019
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Dreams into Drawing
2019
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Keep Forgetting
2019
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Where is my home?
2019
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House Rattler
2019
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Psyche
2019
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Indoor Days
2019
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See My World
2019
8.0
The Death Vendor
2019
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Dissipate
2019
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Pickle Plum Parade
2019
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What's that smell?
2019
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Stay With Me
2019
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The On-hold Music of Terror
2019
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A Pawn
2019
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Hear the Snow Melt
2019
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That summer there were two of us
2019
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Flow of Life
2019
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Boozy Woozy Wonderland
2019
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Summer Sky Reverie
2019
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Behind Us
2019
8.5
Bath House of Whales
2019
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The Body in the Mind
2019
8.0
Pupa
2019
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In There
2018
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Namahage's Obon Homecoming
2018
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Lion Nanny's Journey
2018
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On the way home
2018
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Bero Bero
2018
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Take Me Home
2018
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The Body Swap Center
2018
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Typhoon No. 14
2018
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Gals
2018
7.8
My Little Goat
2018
8.0
The Pearl Remains
2018
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Quest of the Battling Gods
2018
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light of temptation
2018
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Memory Drawers
2018
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Live or Let Live
2018
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Fluffiction
2018
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Shiosai-bound
2018
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Angel inside a box
2018
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A4 Microcosm
2018
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SIBLINGS
2018
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Dance to Life
2018
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7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports
2018
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Jinxes
2018
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To day plus one
2018
5.0
The Red Bridge is Falling Down
2018
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Time Autobahn
2018NR
四季
2017
6.5
Notes on Monstropedia
2017
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The Story of a Motorbike
2017
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yelp
2017
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flower
2017
9.5
AEON
2017
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Cogito Wonderland
2017
6.1
Candy.zip
2017
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Cosmopolite
2017
7.0
South Forest
2017
9.0
Nosferatu Maiden
2017
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There was a man
2017
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RINGING CITY
2017
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Squid Introspection
2017
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Self-Honest Me
2017
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Water Dream
2017
6.2
Satie's "Parade"
2016
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At The Mouth of Summer
2016
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If Everyone Looked the Same
2016
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mayumi
2016
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Umbrella
2016
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Silence
2016
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man of many arms
2016
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CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness
2016
7.5
Starting Over
2016
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Awakened Seed
2016
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Red Forest
2016
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First Hand Memories
2016
10.0
RADIO WAVE
2016
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Milky Ways
2016
7.0
Zodiac One Third
2016
7.5
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman
2015
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Crossing Sight
2015
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The Yellow Ball
2015
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Black Cat
2015
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Color Blots
2015NR
Tepid Bath
2015
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Moonlit Night and Opal
20157.0
Fox Fears
2015NR
Zdravstvuite!
2015NR
Missing You
2015
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toco toco
2014
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Crazy Little Thing
2014NR
Exit My Room
2014
5.5
00:08
2014NR
Everyday Sins
20144.5
aaH / Hee
2014NR
Spoon
2014NR
Reinventing the Square Wheel
2014NR
See ya, Mr. Banno!
2014
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Through the Windows
2014NR
My Dear
2014NR
Flower Bud
2014
6.6
My Milk Cup Cow
20148.0
Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA
2014
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Kicking Rocks
20134.5
A Gum Boy
2013NR
My Dear Flesh
2013NR
Cubic Centimeter
2013NR
Ream
20133.0
USALULLABY
2013NR
From a Stone
20136.0
Maze King
2013NR
Wild Wild Ham
2013
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It’s Time for Supper
2013
3.5
The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki
2013
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Five Fire Fish
2013
4.0
My Frame
2013
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I’m Nothing
2013NR
The Cloudy Dog Talk About
2012NR
The Man Who Ate an Apple
2012NR
A Wind Egg
2012
7.0
Recruit Rhapsody
2012NR
Flower and Steam
2012
7.0
People who are Eating
20125.0
Awaiting
2012NR
Sunset Flower Blooming
2012NR
Spirits from the Night
2012
6.0
Muybridge's Strings
20117.0
Anthology with Cranes
2011NR
Scripta volant
2011NR
From the Dolphin
2011NR
Spots Spots
2011NR
The Grouse in Snow Mountain
2011
5.0
In a Pig's Eye
2010
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Nihon no Uta Film (Red Disc)
2010
6.5
Woman Who Stole Fingers
2010
6.0
Bring Me Up
2010
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Googuri Googuri
2010
6.0
Getting Dressed
2010
6.7
Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor
2007
6.8
A Child's Metaphysics
2007
6.5
Man & Whale
2007
7.7
Tokyo Loop
2006NR
Fig
2006
6.5
The Old Crocodile
2005
7.3
Frank & Wendy
2005
8.0
Tracing Jake
2004
6.0
Winter Days
20035.7
Pieces
2003
6.4
Mount Head
20027.0
Your Choice!
2000
6.5
Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee
19996.3
Bavel's Book
19965.5
Kid's Castle
1995
7.0
The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish
19955.0
Kipling Jr.
19955.5
Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination
19935.5
Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches
19935.2
Karo and Piyobupt: A House
1993
6.5
The Elevator
19915.2
Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research
19906.7
Japanese-English Pictionary
1989
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SONODA Video - Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter
1988
5.5
Heavenly Bodies' Score
1987
4.9
Cyclops
1987
6.0
Aquatic
1987NR
Quick-Sand
1987
8.0
Freshwater
1986
7.0
Serenade
1985
7.0
Natural History
1985
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Red Peony of Night
1950
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Mado Kara Tobidase
1950
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Hand-Drawn: Documentary
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The Spring Sea
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