Koji Yamamura

Known For: Directing
Born: June 4, 1964
Place of Birth: Nagoya, Japan

Koji Yamamura

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

Haru no Umi

2026 · Director, Music, Writer

Eri, The Cow

2026 · Supervising Producer

REST

2025 · Producer

OCTOPOLIS - Prologue -

OCTOPOLIS - Prologue -

2025 · Producer

Extremely Short

2024 · Director, Producer

My Inner Ear Quartet

2023 · Director

Joy of Life

2023 · Producer

Alien Human

2023 · Producer

LOVE★STAR

2023 · Producer

Dozens of Norths

2023 · Original Music Composer, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Visual Effects, Editor, Animation, Creator

To the Moon and Back

2023 · Producer

BLUE

2023 · Producer

Methodology of Opening Jars

2023 · Producer

In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket

2022 · Producer

Stained Smell

2022 · Producer

Before Dawn

2022 · Producer

Winter Star

2022 · Producer

Poo Down Hill Up

2022 · Producer

919

2022 · Producer

The House of Loss

2022 · Producer

The Ant Tower

2022 · Producer

Chinatown, Whereabouts Unknown

2022 · Producer

Me and Me

2022 · Producer

Round Trip

2021 · Producer

A Bite of Bone

2021 · Producer

Are you here, Ser Brunetto?

2021 · Production Supervisor

Our 2

2021 · Producer

Polar Bear Bears Boredom

2021 · Director, Writer, Animation, Painter, Producer, Digital Producer

Our Little Pond

2021 · Producer

So I Picked Up the Worm

2021 · Producer

The Mouse and a Prism

2021 · Producer

Squishy Fish Eggs

2021 · Producer

Coping Mechanism

2021 · Producer

Conflicted

2021 · Producer

blink

2021 · Producer

Red

2021 · Producer

Brother

2021 · Producer

Amane Diary

2021 · Producer

Dear Viruses

2021 · Producer

POP JUNKIE

2021 · Producer

MUNCH MUNCH

2021 · Producer

Strawberry Candy

2020 · Producer

A DOG

2020 · Producer

Iron Pulse

2020 · Producer

Long Live the Cat

2020 · Producer

WOKE

2020 · Producer

Representation of Light

2020 · Producer

Strangers in the Alley

2020 · Producer

I Am a Motif

2020 · Producer

Notre maison

2020 · Producer

The Big Tree in Front of the House

2020 · Producer

My Hand, Her Hand

2020 · Producer

Empty Hands

2020 · Producer

WildAid 'Hankograph'

2019 · Director

Dreams into Drawing

2019 · Director

Keep Forgetting

2019 · Producer

Where is my home?

2019 · Producer

House Rattler

2019 · Producer

Psyche

2019 · Producer

Indoor Days

2019 · Producer

See My World

2019 · Producer

The Death Vendor

2019 · Producer

Dissipate

2019 · Producer

Pickle Plum Parade

2019 · Producer

What's that smell?

2019 · Producer

Stay With Me

2019 · Producer

The On-hold Music of Terror

2019 · Producer

A Pawn

2019 · Producer

Hear the Snow Melt

2019 · Producer

That summer there were two of us

2019 · Producer

Flow of Life

2019 · Producer

Boozy Woozy Wonderland

2019 · Producer

Summer Sky Reverie

2019 · Producer

Behind Us

2019 · Producer

Bath House of Whales

2019 · Executive Producer

The Body in the Mind

2019 · Producer

Pupa

2019 · Producer

In There

2018 · Producer

Namahage's Obon Homecoming

2018 · Producer

Lion Nanny's Journey

2018 · Producer

On the way home

2018 · Producer

Bero Bero

2018 · Producer

Take Me Home

2018 · Producer

The Body Swap Center

2018 · Producer

Typhoon No. 14

2018 · Producer

Gals

2018 · Producer

My Little Goat

2018 · Producer

The Pearl Remains

2018 · Producer

Quest of the Battling Gods

2018 · Producer

light of temptation

2018 · Producer

Memory Drawers

2018 · Producer

Live or Let Live

2018 · Producer

Fluffiction

2018 · Producer

Shiosai-bound

2018 · Producer

Angel inside a box

2018 · Producer

A4 Microcosm

2018 · Producer

SIBLINGS

2018 · Producer

Dance to Life

2018 · Producer

7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports

2018 · Producer

Jinxes

2018 · Producer

To day plus one

2018 · Producer

The Red Bridge is Falling Down

2018 · Producer

Time Autobahn

2018 · Producer

四季

2017 · Supervising Producer

Notes on Monstropedia

2017 · Director

The Story of a Motorbike

2017 · Producer

yelp

2017 · Producer

flower

2017 · Producer

AEON

2017 · Producer

Cogito Wonderland

2017 · Producer

Candy.zip

2017 · Producer

Cosmopolite

2017 · Producer

South Forest

2017 · Producer

Nosferatu Maiden

2017 · Producer

There was a man

2017 · Producer

RINGING CITY

2017 · Producer

Squid Introspection

2017 · Producer

Self-Honest Me

2017 · Producer

Water Dream

2017 · Director, Animation

Satie's "Parade"

2016 · Director, Animation, Producer, Writer

At The Mouth of Summer

2016 · Producer

If Everyone Looked the Same

2016 · Producer

mayumi

2016 · Producer

Umbrella

2016 · Producer

Silence

2016 · Producer

man of many arms

2016 · Producer

CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness

2016 · Producer

Starting Over

2016 · Producer

Awakened Seed

2016 · Producer

Red Forest

2016 · Producer

First Hand Memories

2016 · Producer

RADIO WAVE

2016 · Producer

Milky Ways

2016 · Producer

Zodiac One Third

2016 · Director

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman

2015 · Self

Crossing Sight

2015 · Producer

The Yellow Ball

2015 · Producer

Black Cat

2015 · Producer

Color Blots

2015 · Producer

Tepid Bath

2015 · Producer

Moonlit Night and Opal

Moonlit Night and Opal

2015 · Producer

Fox Fears

2015 · Producer

Zdravstvuite!

2015 · Producer

Missing You

2015 · Producer

toco toco

2014

Crazy Little Thing

2014 · Producer

Exit My Room

2014 · Producer

00:08

2014 · Producer

Everyday Sins

2014 · Producer

aaH / Hee

2014 · Producer

Spoon

2014 · Producer

Reinventing the Square Wheel

Reinventing the Square Wheel

2014 · Producer

See ya, Mr. Banno!

See ya, Mr. Banno!

2014 · Producer

Through the Windows

2014 · Producer

My Dear

2014 · Producer

Flower Bud

2014 · Producer

My Milk Cup Cow

2014 · Producer

Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA

Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA

2014 · Producer

Kicking Rocks

2013 · Producer

A Gum Boy

2013 · Producer

My Dear Flesh

2013 · Producer

Cubic Centimeter

Cubic Centimeter

2013 · Producer

Ream

2013 · Producer

USALULLABY

2013 · Producer

From a Stone

2013 · Producer

Maze King

2013 · Producer

Wild Wild Ham

2013 · Producer

It’s Time for Supper

2013 · Producer

The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki

2013 · Director

Five Fire Fish

2013 · Director

My Frame

2013 · Producer

I’m Nothing

2013 · Producer

The Cloudy Dog Talk About

The Cloudy Dog Talk About

2012 · Producer

The Man Who Ate an Apple

The Man Who Ate an Apple

2012 · Producer

A Wind Egg

2012 · Producer

Recruit Rhapsody

Recruit Rhapsody

2012 · Producer

Flower and Steam

Flower and Steam

2012 · Producer

People who are Eating

2012 · Producer

Awaiting

2012 · Producer

Sunset Flower Blooming

Sunset Flower Blooming

2012 · Producer

Spirits from the Night

Spirits from the Night

2012 · Producer

Muybridge's Strings

2011 · Director, Editor, Animation, Screenplay

Anthology with Cranes

Anthology with Cranes

2011 · Director

Scripta volant

2011 · Producer

From the Dolphin

From the Dolphin

2011 · Producer

Spots Spots

2011 · Producer

The Grouse in Snow Mountain

The Grouse in Snow Mountain

2011 · Producer

In a Pig's Eye

2010 · Producer

Woman Who Stole Fingers

2010 · Producer

Bring Me Up

2010 · Producer

Googuri Googuri

2010 · Producer

Getting Dressed

2010 · Producer

Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

2007 · Director, Animation, Background Designer

A Child's Metaphysics

2007 · Director

Man & Whale

2007 · Director

Tokyo Loop

2006 · Director

The Old Crocodile

2005 · Director

Frank & Wendy

2005 · Japanese Tourist (voice)

Tracing Jake

2004 · Animation Director

Winter Days

2003 · Director

Pieces

2003 · Director, Writer

Mount Head

2002 · Director, Production Design, Editor, Animation

Your Choice!

2000 · Director

Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee

1999 · Director

Bavel's Book

1996 · Director

Kid's Castle

1995 · Director

The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish

1995 · Animation

Kipling Jr.

1995 · Yohann Kipling, Director

Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination

Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination

1993 · Director

Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches

Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches

1993 · Director

Karo and Piyobupt: A House

Karo and Piyobupt: A House

1993 · Director

The Elevator

1991 · Director

Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research

Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research

1990 · Director

Japanese-English Pictionary

Japanese-English Pictionary

1989 · Director

SONODA Video - Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter

1988 · Director

Heavenly Bodies' Score

1987 · Producer, Director

Aquatic

1987 · Director

Quick-Sand

1987 · Co-Director

Freshwater

1986 · Director

Serenade

1985 · Director, Screenplay

Natural History

1985 · Director

Red Peony of Night

1950

Mado Kara Tobidase

1950 · Thief

Hand-Drawn: Documentary

— · Self

The Spring Sea

— · Director

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