Karo and Piyobpt

| TV Series | 1992 | Japan | 4'20" x 3 epsode | 35mm, HD, DCP | Standard | Stereo | No dialogue | Story boards | Cels | Objects | Making of | Stills |

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Produce: Yamamura Animation
Direction, Animation, Script: Yamamura Koji
Camera: Akiyoshi Studio
Sound: NHK
Music: Syzygys
Voices: Karo: Takahashi Momota, Piyobpt: Shimizu Hitomi
Broardcasted on NHK "Petti Clay"

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Awards: The Prize of ANIFILM Praha for unconventional and inventive technigue of animated film: Zlin Film Festibal-xxxiv.1994
Second Prize of Category C: The5th International Animation Festival in Japan Hiroshima'94
Best Director-Animation Film: Chicago International Children's Film Festival

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Official Selection: Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski, Dresden Children's Film Festival
10jahre Berliner Kinderkinotage and The Festival of Light Filmfest
44th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin-Kinderfilmfest 1994
5th International New England Childrens's Film Festival
Cairo International Film Festival, The 37th Internatonal Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation 8th INTERNATIONALE TRICKFILMTAGE SCHORNDORF
ANNECY '95

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Review: "Keep it in Motion - Classic Animation Revisited: the Karo and Piyobupt trilogy" （By Chris Robinson, January 5, 2017, AWM.com）»Site
Koji Yamamura’s informal Karo and Pyrobupt trilogy (A House, Imagination, Sandwiches, 1992 ) celebrates the magnificence of the mundane, the beauty of the moment. There is no past or future in their world. In a fever of scattered senses, Karo and Pyrobupt embrace, breathe, smile and cry the moment. It’s in these small moments that we find the essence of our lives.  To live in the moment is to savour each morsel. No matter how seemingly insignificant, the crumbs make the person. 
In this world, life is sacred. Every ounce is consumed and enjoyed. Life is pleasure. Pleasure comes from those individual moments. Karo and Pyrobupt are the anti-Vladimir and Estragon. They await no one. They embrace the moment. In A House, they build a house together before winter approaches. In Imagination, they use their imagination to forget about a rainy day. Friendship. Collaboration. Communication. Imagination. Satisfaction. That’s it. That’s all. Life shared. Life loved. 
In the world of the child, the mundane is as significant as the spiritual. Children see the greatness in little things. They don’t worry about the end or the deed, existing only for the process. The completing not the completion.
Yamamura unearths the forgotten spaces, the cracks, gaps, and out-of-frame moments that embody the essence of adult and child.  The unframed memories breathed as the irrevocable instant of a child.

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