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| work in progress | Music Plays In a Soulless Room (provisional title) | Short animation | Japan, France | Script, Animation & Direction: YAMAMURA Koji Production: Yamamura Animation, MIYU Productions |
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Polar Bear Bears Boredom French title: Un ours blanc super feignant | Short animation | 2021 | Japan | 7'00" | 4K | Cinemascope (2.35:1) | 5.1ch , Stereo | English, Japanese | Trailer 2K Vimeo | Trailer 4K YouTube | Making Video Vimeo | Making Video YouTube | Painted, Animated and Directed by Yamamura Koji English Supervisor: Michael Lazarin Digital Work & Producers: Yamamura Koji / sanae Production: Yamamura Animation Music: CASIO Toruko Onsen Written by Yamamura Koji / PKNY / MTG Composed & Performed by PKNY & MTG Voice Performed by PKNY / MTG / Chiyaji / Botsu (Dos Monos) Sound Designer: Takino Masumi Vocal Recording: Studio oden studio Recording: Engineer Koizumi Chinatsu Music Mixer: Motoki Kazunari Sound Mixing Studio: IYUNO STUDIOS Re-recoding: Asakura Tsutomu Assistant: Re-recoding Miyoshi Yusuke This project enjoyed the NEF Animation Writing Residency in Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Odyssée Program - ACCR, with the support of the French Ministry of culture, the French National Center for Cinema and the Moving lmage (CNC) and the French Region Pays de la Loire. A polar bear who is very bored with various marine animals in the deep blue sea. It continues an ancient tradition of "Caricatures of Frolicking animals" in scroll painting-style; this time, "Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play on Japanese and English language word-plays: "Hokyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima. / Polar bear bears boredom", "Kawauso Kawaisou./Other otter, poor otter," etc. Official Site: www.yamamura-animation.jp/polarbearbearsboredom.html Awards Best International Animation Short: 1st North London Animation Festival, UK, 2021.11 BEST OF FEST for SEPTEMBER: 7th Animalis Fabula Film Festival, US, 2021.09 Special Mention: 6th Animation Marathon, Greece, November 2021 Official Selection
39th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, US, 2021.08
17th Korean Independent Animation Film Festival Indie-AniFest2021, Korea, 2021.09 17th World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria, 2021.09 6th S.O.F.A Film Festival (Animals, Wildlife, Environment, Conservation), Cyprus, 2021.10 10th ANIMA, Córdoba International Animation Festival, Argentina, 2021.10 11th Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taiwan, 2021.10 1st Children’s International Film Festival of Wales, UK, 2021.10 15th TAIS Animation Showcase 2021, Canada, 2021.10 12th TOFUZI International Animated Film Festival, Georgia, 2021.10 15th Big Cartoon Festival, Russia, 2021.10 14th ANIMANIMA International Animation Festival, Serbia, 2021.11 38th Chicago International Children's Film Festival, US, 2021.11 45th CINANIMA - International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Portugal, 2021.11 25th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Canada, 2021.11 15th Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan, 2021.11 9th Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, US, 2021.11 28th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2021.11 14th Piccolo Festival Animazione, Italy, 2021.11 10th Tindirindis International Animation Film, Lithuania, 2021.11 6th Animation Marathon, Greece, 2021.11 5th Children Short Film Festival, UK, 2021.11 7th Animalis Fabula Film Festival, US, 2021.11 4th Panama Animation Festival, Panama, 2021.11 3rd Children's Film Tour, Mexico, 2021.11 5th FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival, US, 2021.12 3rd Feinaki Beijing Animation Week 2021, China, 2021.12 21st Future Film Festival, Italy, 2021.12 Finalist 12th Los Angeles Animation Festival, US, 2021.12 |
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Dreams Into Drawing | Short animation | August 2019 | Japan | 10'10" | 4K, HD, DCP | 16:9, Vista | 5.1ch, Stereo | Japanese, English | Information | Sketches | Storyboards | Stills | Trailer | Japanese: Yumeminoe Chinese: 梦见之画 Spanish: Sueños en dibujo German: Traumzeichnung Dreams into Drawing is based on KUWAGATA KEISAI's Ways to Sketc and the short story ‘A Carp That Appeared in My Dream’ from UEDA AKINARI's Tales of Moonlight and Rain. KEISAI himself appears as a character in the animation. English Narration, English translation: ROBERT CAMPBELL (Japanese Narration: NAGATSUKA Keishi) Based on UEDA AKINARI ‘Muo no Rigyo’, Tales of Moon and Rain (Ugetsu Monogatari, 1776) KUWAGATA KEISAI Ways to Sketch Animals (1797) Ways to Sketch People (1799) Animation: YAMAMURA KOJI, YANO HONAMI Digital Work: YAMAMURA KOJI, SANAE Music: SYZYGYS, 43-Microtone Organ SHIMIZU HITOMI, Violin NISHIDA HIROMI Sound Design: KASAMATSU KOJI Supported by NIJL Arts Initiative, Tokyo University of the Arts Production: Yamamura Animation Script, Editing & Direction: YAMAMURA KOJI The painter KUWAGATA KEISAI lived over 200 years ago. He illustrated Ways to Sketch, a series of picture books depicting humans and animals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching a carp when suddenly he fell asleep and, in his dream, transfigured into a carp. The carp was enjoying his swim, but when a fisherman caught him things suddenly took a turn for the worse...
Awards: Best International Animated Short Film: 1st Animation Celebration Fest, US, Wisconsin, 2020.10 Best Animation: 15th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market, Japan, Sapporo, 2020.10 Best Animated Short Film (from 1 to 10 min): 11th International Animation Film Festival - Golden Kuker Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020.09 Silver award: 13th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, 2020.11 Best Arts award: 13th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, 2020.11 Best Arts award: 13th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, 2020.11 Best Animated Short in the “Animated Documentaries”, 3rd Palm Spring International Animation Festival & Expo, US, CA, 2020.12 Audience Award: 10th Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival, UK, 2020.10 Online Fun Award: 15th Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan, 2020.11 Special Mention of the Jury: “for the artistic value of animation”: 18th Imaginaria – Int. animated film festival, Italy, Conversano, 2020.08 Honorable Mention: 3rd TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival, Georgia, 2020.12 Official Selection
23rd New York International Children's Film Festival, US, 2020.02
25th Open Russian animated films Festival, Russian, 2020.03 2nd Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Italy, 2020.03 20th MONSTRA - Lisbon Animation Festival, Portugal, 2020.03 3rd Moscow Shorts, Russia, Moscow, 2020.03 11th NonStop Barcelona Animation, International Animation Film Festival, Spain, 2020.03 7th Setting Sun Film Festival, Australia, Yarraville, 2020 15th Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival, US, 2020.04 1st Animation Celebration Fest, US, Wisconsin, 2020.04 5th FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival, US, CA, 2020.06 13th International Animation Festival Fest Anča, Slovakia, Žilina, 2020.07 10th International Animation Festival SUPERTOON, Croatia, Šibenik, 2020.07 6th Animaphix International Animated Film Festival, Italy, Bagheria, 2020.07-08 4th Still Voices Short Film Festival, Ireland, Longford, 2020.08 8th La Guarimba Film Festival, Italy, Calabria, 2020.08 18th Imaginaria – International animated film festival, Italy, Conversano, 2020.08 4th MalatestaShort Film Festival, Italy, Cesena, 2020.08 6th Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE, Canada, Montreal, 2020.08 9th American Documentary And Animation Film Festival, US, 2020.09 11th International Animation Film Festival - Golden Kuker Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020.09 16th World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria, Varna, 2020.09 16th Korean Independent Animation Film Festival Indie-AniFest, Korea, Seoul, 2020.09 15th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market, Japan, Sapporo, 2020,10 15th ANIMATOU, Switzerland, Genève, 2020.10 13th International Animated Film Festival Animator, Poland, Poznan, 2020.10-12 3rd ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival, Azerbaijan, Baku, 2020.10 7th Goa Short Film Festival, India, Maharashtra, 2020.10.2 10th Pune Short Film Festival, India, Maharashtra, 2020.10-11 Japan Arts Center 12th Movie Grandprix, Japan, 2020.10-11 8th International Short Film Festival Canton, China, GuangDong, 2020.10-11 13th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, Xiamen, 2020.11 37th Chicago International Children's Film Festival, US, Illinois, 2020.11 27th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima 2020, Poland, Kraków, 2020.11 2nd Feinaki Beijing Animation Week, Beijing, 2020.11 22nd Wiesbaden International Festival of Animation, Germany, Wiesbaden, 2020.11 7th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2020, Japan, 2020.11 6th Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan, Taichung, 2020.11-12 17th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020.11-12 12th Los Angeles Animation Festival, US, CA, 2020.12 18th MUMIA, Brazil, 2020.12 3rd Palm Spring International Animation Festival & Expo, US, CA, 2020.12 13th Piccolo Festival Dell'Animazione, Italy: Pordenone, Udine, Gorizia, Trieste and Dobbia, 2020.12 3rd TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival, Georgia, Tbilisi, 2020.12 1st Alibag Short Film Festival, India, Alibag, Maharashtra, 2021.01 8th Insomnia International Animation Film Festival, Russian, Moscow and Kaluga, 2021.07 ICFilmFestival, US, 2021,11 Semi finalist, Nomination: Animation category nomination: 74th Maichi Film Awards. 2019.12 Honourable Mention: 5th Asia South East-Short Film Festival 2020 SPRING, Cambodia, 2020.04 Semi finalist: New York Animation Film Awards, 2020.06 Semi finalist: 24th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, US, Providence, 2020.08 Japanese Animation Today: 18th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2020.08 Jury Selections: 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, Japan, 2020.09
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2017   (C) Yamamura / Verhelst /Tougeron |
Water Dream | Short animation | October 2017 | France, Japan | 10'53" | HD, DCP| 16:9 | Stereo | French | Stills | Japanese: Mizu No Yume French: L'eau des rêves Chinese: 水之梦 Animation, Direction: Yamamura Koji Original Music for instruments, voice and soundtrack: Catherin Verhelst Dramaturgie: Hervé Tougeron Mezzo: Kakei Akie Clarinets: Annelise Clément Viola: Delphine Millour Piano: Catherine Verhelst Recording : STUDIO 7ème CIEL, Issy les Moulineaux/France Recording Sounds : Jean-Maurice Hayano Supported from National Histry Museum in Nuntes Foundation Franco-Japanese Sasawawa This film depicts evolution from birth of life to whale in the sea with music and images by dedication to the American contemporary composer George Klum's "Vox Balaenae (1971)" There are 4 part, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Award: Grand Prix: 9th Festival Ciné Poème, France, 2020.03 Official selection: 11th Cairo International Forum for Animated Films, Egypt, Cairo, 2018.02 Official Invitation Short Film Corner 2019, Fance, Cannes 41st Festival of 3 Continents, Nuntes, France |
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Notes on Monstropedia | Short animation | 2016 | Japan | 6'10" | HD, DCP | Vista, 16:9 | Stereo | No Dialogue, Japanese subtitles, English subtitles, French subtitles, Spanish subtitles, German: subtitles | Sketches | Making of | Stills | Japanese: 怪物学抄 French: Notes de monstrologie Spanish: Notas de monstruopedia German: Notizen zu „Monstropedia“ Animation, Text & Directed by Yamamura Koji Music by George Frideric Handel Harpsichord Suite In F, HWV 427 Harpsichord Suite In D Minor, HWV 428 Var. 1~5 Music arranged by Shimizu Hitomi Production: Yamamura Animation An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious monsterologist in Medieval Europe. This work depicts the habits of monsters using movements inspired by short phrases such as “Taste of Tears”, “Tamed Wildness”, etc.
Awards: Honour distinction: 24th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Kraków, Poland, November 2017 Distinction: 3rd ANIMATION MARATHON, Athens, Greece, November 2017 Official selection
7GINES EN CORTO 7th Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Gines, PASE INFANTIL, Gines, Spain, April 2017
19th NCCC Film & Animation Festival, Sanborn, US, May 2017 25th International Animation Festival of Brazil – Anima Mundi 2017, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brazil, July 2017 5th International festival of animated film Constantine's Gold Coin, Nis, Serbia, July 2017 3rd Still Voices Short Film Festival 2017, Ballymahon, Co.Longford, ireland, August 2017 16th Concorto Film Festival 2017, Pontenure and Piacenza, Italy, August 2017 2nd Turku Animated Film Festival - TAFF, Finland, Turku, August 2017 13th BuSho The Budapest Short International Film Festival 2017, Budapest, Hungary, August 2017 3rd Västerås Filmfestival, Västerås, Sweden, Sept 2017 13th Indie-AniFest 2017, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2017 25th Raindance Film Festival 2017, London, UK, October 2017 10th ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival + Agora of the island of Syros, the island of Syros, Greece, Oct 2017 3rd World Animation Celebration, USA, CA, Oct. 2017 6th International Tour Film Festival, Rome, Italy, Oct. 2017 36th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden, Oct. 2017 4th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Chitose, Hokkaido, Nov. 2017 25th Kineko International Children’s Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2017 41st CINANIMA 2017, Espinho, Portugal, Nov. 2017 3rd ANIMATION MARATHON, Athens, Greece, Nov. 2017 24th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Kraków, Poland, Nov. 2017 10th Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation - Festival international de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, Nov. 2017 10th Piccolo Festival Animazione, Pordenone, Udine , Trieste, Gorizia, Venice, Italy, Dec. 2017 11th Cairo International Forum for Animated Films, Egypt, Cairo, Feb. 2018 21st New York International Children's Film Festival, UY, USA, Feb. 2018 Chicago International Children Film Festival, US, Chicago, Nov. 2018 14th Indie-AniFest, July 2018 2nd The World Animation Celebration, Sep. 2017 3rd Animation Marathon, Greece, Nov. 2017 2nd Still Voices Short Film Festival, Ireland, August. 2017 19th NCCC Film & Animation Festival, NY, US, 2017 10th AnimaSyros International Animation Festival + Agora, Cyclades, Greece, Sep. 2017 4th Animation Shorts Film Festival, MT, US, July 2017 Västerås Filmfestival, Sweden, Västerås, 2017 AWAS! A Weekend of Animation Shorts, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2017 16th Countryside Animafest Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2017 7th International Film Festival «On the Edge», Sakhalin, Russia, August 2017 11th Cromarty Film Festival, Cromarty, UK, 2017.11 HIROSHIMA 2018 17th INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Hiroshima, August 2018
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Zodiac One Third | Short animation | 2016 | Japan | 2'00" | HD, DCP | 16:9 | Stereo | No Dialogue | Stills | Music: Shimizu Hitomi Directed & animated by Yamamura Koji Production: Yamamura Animation This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from the 2016 Champion and Patron Members of Reel Asian. Chinese Zodiac is 60-years cycle by 10 heavenly elements and 12 earthly animals, 20th anniversary is just one third. In this movie appearing and changing into 20 elements from 1997 that was started the festival to 2016. Music is played by Dan Bau that Vietnamese electronic stringed instrument. Screening: 20th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, November 2016  |
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Satie's "Parade" | Short animation | 2016 | Japan | 14'12" | 4K, HD, DCP | Cinemascope | Stereo | No Dialogue French Subtitles, English Subtitles, Japanese Subtitles, Spanish Subtitles, Chinese Subtitles | Production Scene| Stills | Trailer | French: "Parade" de Satie Music & text: Erik Satie (1866-1925) Music performed by Willem Breuker Kollektief Arranged by Willem Breuker (1944-2010) Directed & animated by Yamamura Koji Special thanks: Arjen Gorter, Ornella Volta, Catherine Verhelst, Hervé Tougeron, Tokyo University of the Arts Assistant: Yamamura Sanae Translation: Ilan Nguyên, Spanish Translation: Nicolás Guarín, Chinese Translation: Yantong Zhu Production: Yamamura Animation Distribution: Au Praxinoscope A Parade by three managers and four performers. Koji Yamamura's new animation project, "Parade" de Satie (Satie's "Parade"). Erik Satie composed a ballet music "Parade" in 1916 with 1917. Dutch indie jazz band, Willem Breuker Kollektief played this music and Koji Yamamura directs for Erik Satie's"Parade" as a surrealism animated ballet.It will be coming in 2016 that 150th anniversary Erik Satie and 100th anniversary "Parade".
Awards: Golden Brick: 6th Animax Skopje Fest, Skopje, Macedonia, December 2016 Golden Pencil Award: 7th DRAWTASTIC's 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival Seattle, WA, USA, February 2017 Best of Festival - Animated Short: 6th Richmond International Film Festival , Richmond, VA, USA, March, 2017 Best Animated Film: 1st Vienna Independent Film Festival VIFF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 2016 Best Animation: 12th BuSho The Budapest Short International Film Festival 201, Budapest, Hungary, September 2016 Best Animated Film: 2nd Edition of the Less 15 minutes International MiniMovie Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 2017 Crónica - Proesional trigger (Best of Professional chronicle category) : 3rd Locomocion Experimental Animation Best Animated Short 2nd Place; 1st North Bay Art & Film Festival (NBAFF), Benicia, CA, USA, October 2016 Special Jury Prize: 18th Animated Dreams 2016, Tallinn, Estonia, November 2016 Special Prize: HIROSHIMA 2016 16th INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Hiroshima, Japan, August 2016 [Comments on Awarding] Roll up!! Roll up!! Welcome to the Ballet Russes, a bit different from Picasso. Here comes an innocent and nonsensical parade! Animation Winner: 1st NEAR NAZARETH FESTIVAL, Afula, Israel, May 2016 Best Editing Animation;1st NON STOP ART FESTIVAL/BA2016(International Film and Art Festival), Caba, Argentina, September 2016 Jury Special Mention by Theodore Ushev : 15th Countryside Animafest Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, July 2016 [Comments on Awarding] For a refreshing and absurd view of the music and life of a genius 12th Edition, Shorts Mexico – Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de México, Mexico, Mexico City, September 2017 13th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2017 10th ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival + Agora of the island of Syros, the island of Syros, Greece, October 2017 Official selection
7th International Festival of Film Cinema for Fture Sciety A-FestFilmGjirokastra, Official competition for ages 10 years old, Gjirokastra, Albania, May 2016
Animation Attack! 5th Atlanta Animation Festival, Official selection, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2016 31st ANNECY, Official selection : Short Films in competition, Annecy, France, June 2016 Special Festival Mention: 5th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival-16, Greater Noida, India, June 2016 1st Big River Film Festival - Savannah, Official Selection: Short Film Animation - International, Savannah, GA, USA, July 2016 6th International Festival Ojo al Piojo,Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, July 2016 2nd Animaphix- International Film Festival of Animation, Bagheria, Sicilia, Italy, July 2016 18th FESTCURTASBH Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, August 2016 40th OPEN AIR FILMFEST WEITERSTADT, Weiterstadt, Germany, August 2016 1st WNY Film, Art, and Music Event (Fame) , Batavia, NY, USA, August 2016 9th Cyber Sousa Awards Xiamen International Animation Festival, Xiamen, China, August, 2016 3rd IndiEarth Animation Film Festival, India, August, 2016 4th ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, August 2016 5th Cebu International Film Festival, Cebu, Philippines, August 2016 1st Turku Animated Film Festival - TAFF, Finland, Turku, August 2016 3rd Hawaii International Short Film Festival, Honolulu, HI, USA, August 2016 3rd PINK CITY INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, India, August 2016 27th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2016 7th Fayetteville Film Fest, Fayetteville, AR, USA, September 2016 16th Nevada City Film Festival, Nevada City, CA, USA, September 2016 36th Breckenridge Film Festival, Breckenridge, CO, USA, September 2016 10th Athens International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo, Athens, Greece, September 2016 9th Arizona Underground Film Festival, Tucson, AZ, USA, September 2016 4th Parma International Music Film Festival, Parma, Italy, September 2016 22nd Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival, Bristol, UK, September 2016 10th JAHORINA FILM FESTIVAL, Pale, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2016 Ottawa International Animation Festival 2016, Ottawa, Canada, September 2016 12th Indie-AniFest 2016, Soul, Korea, September 2016 Aichi Triennale 2016, Aichi, Japan, August to September 2016 Cineseptiembre International Independent Film Festival, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, September 2016 17th West Virginia FILMmakers Festival, Sutton, WV, USA, September–October 2016 24th Raindance Film Festival, London, UK, September–October 2016 9th International Animated Film Festival "TOFUZI” (the Central Festival), Batumi, Georgia / October 2016 1st Guimarães Cinema Som International Film Festival 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2016 13th Sedicicorto International Film Festival Forlì 2016, Forli, Italy, October 2016 11th ANIM’EST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL, Bucharest, Romania, October 2016 11th SAPPORO INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET 2016, Sapporo, Japan, October 2016 14th Tallgrass international filme Festival, Wichita, KS, USA, October 2016 18th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, Germany, Wiesbaden, October 2016 24th International Animation Festival of Brazil – Anima Mundi 2016, Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo, Brazil, October to November 2016 8th ReAnimania International Animation Film Festival of Yerevan, Armenia, October-November 2016 16th KAOHSIUNG FILM FESTIVAL International Short Film Competition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October-November 2016 32nd Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA, October-November 2016 6th KUANDU INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Taipei, Taiwan, October-November 2016 3rd New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Chitose, Hokkaido, November 2016 25th St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO, USA, November 2016 7th ITSA Film Festival, Sonora, CA, USA / November 2016 15th Rome Independent Film Festival, Italy, Rome, November 8 - November 2016 6th Guam International Film Festival, Barrigada, Guam, USA, November 2016 31st Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) , Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, November 2016 7th CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro, Mexico,, November 2016 58th ZINEBI Festival International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao Bilbao, Spain, November 2016 2nd Animation Marathon, Athina, Greece, November 2016 14th INTERNATIONAL SHORT & INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, DHAKA 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2016 26th Les Nuits Magiques International Animated Film festival, Begles, France, December 2016 14th LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, London, UK, December 2016 7th SOUND & IMAGE CHALLENGE - International Festival 2016, China, Macao, December 2016 2nd Animation Chico, Chico, CA, USA, December 2016 5th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival, Greater Noida, India, December 2016 MONSTRA 16th Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Lisbon, Portgal, March, 2017 Holland Animation Film Festival 2017, Utrecht, Holland, March, 2017 Trois Jours Trop Courts, Castres, France, March - April, 2017 6th Be there! Corfu Animation Festival, Greece, Corfu, March-April Mecal 19th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL SHORT AND ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL, Barcelona, Spain, March-April local editions of the Big Cartoon Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2017 April-May Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films, Třeboň, Czech Republic, May 2017 20th Japan Media Arts Festival: Animation Division: Jury Selections Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia, Melbourne, June , 2017 10th International Animation Festival Fest Anča, Zilina, Slovakia, June 2017 2nd Istanbul Comics & Art Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2017 12th CAMERA JAPAN Festival, Holland, Rotterdam, September 2017 8th Taichung International Animation Festival, Taichung, Taiwan, October 2017 2nd Animation Marathon, Attika, Greece, 2016 8th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival-19, Delhi, India, 2016 19th Woodstock Museum Film Festival, NY, US, August 2017 BEST SHORT FEST, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, September 2016 2nd MINIKINO FILM WEEK 2016, Bali, Indonesia, October 2016 Screenings
Musée Jean Cocteau, Parade de Satie Concert sur-réaliste sur un film d'animation
de Koji Yamamura Avec Annelise Clément, clarinette, Delphine Millour, violon alto Catherine Verhelst, piano 10th ANIMANIMA International Animation Festival:Closing film, Cacak, Serbia, September 2016 5th China Independent Animation Film Forum (CIAFF), Beijing, China, October 2016 10th Expotoons International Animation Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2016 10th KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2016 10th Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia, October-November 2016, program for the 10th Anniversary International Animation Day, ASIFA-SOUTH, Atlanta, Florida and North Carolina USA, November 2016 40th CINANIMA 2016, Espinho, Portuga, November 2016 20th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, November 2016 6th Bronx World Film Cycle 2016, Bronx, NY, USA, December 2016 13th Animateka 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 2016 14th BOGOTÁ SHORT FILM FESTIVAL- BOGOSHORTS, Bogota, Colombia, December 2016 Piccolo Festival of Animation, Pordenone, Italy, December 2016 50th Japanese film festival, Moscow, Russia, November 2016, January 2017 2nd the Jarvis Conservatory’s Classical Arts Film Festival, Napa, CA, USA, February 2017 1st Monden Film Festival, Nagano, Japan, February 2017 6th Atsugi Film Festival, Japan, Kanagawa, February 2017 2nd GLAS Animation Festival, Berkeley, CA, USA, March, 2017 20th Japan Media Arts Festival: Animation Division: Jury Selections local editions of the Big Cartoon Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2017 April-May Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films, Třeboň, Czech Republic, May 2017 2nd AWAS! A Weekend of Animation Shorts, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2017 29th Sukagawa International Short Film Festival, Fukushima, Japan, May 2017 st MusiCanZone FilmFest, Ancona, Italy, August 2017 Woodstock Museum 18th Annual Film Festival 2017, Woodstock, USA, August 2017 7th International Film Festival «On the Edge», Sakhalin, Russia, August 20172 nd Istanbul Comics & Art Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2017 12th CAMERA JAPAN Festival, Holland, Rotterdam, September 2017 15th MUMIA – Underground World Animation Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 2017 2nd Cortometraggi D’Animazione D’Autore, Labus, Benevento, Italy, March 2018 Annecy International Animation Festival, Jube 2018 Big Cartoon Festival, KARO cinema theatre in Moscow, May 2018 Cosmos Cinema in Moscow theatre, July 2018 Saint-Petersburg, July 2018 Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade, September 2016 Geidai Project 2016 "Satie and his period: from the end of 19 century to the Belle Epoque" Vol.4 Companionship proceedings of Satie, Sougaku-do, Ueno, Tokyo University of the Arts , November, 2016 Parade de Satie Concert sur-réaliste sur un film d'animation Review
Festival d'Annecy, jour 1 : périple asiatique | Revue 24 Images (Canada, Par NICOLAS THYS, 2016.06.13) >Site
Comment: Koji's new film is a real masterpice - fresh, crazy, full of small and big surprises. Surprising is also big stylistic variety of Koji's artworks but even in small details you can always recognize the hand of great artist Koji Yamamura. -Priit Pärn (Animation Director, Estonia, 2016.04.22) Article: Animationsfilm zu Erik Saties Ballettmusik „Parade“ Geschmackvoll gezeichnet (Animated film to Erik Satie's ballet “Parade” Tastefully drawnings) (Germany, Almut Ochsmann、2016.05.17) SWR2 >Site Interview : Kinema-Junpo the beginning of September issue（20 August 2015, 1Page) Anime creator 49 people you want to know "Koji Yamamura Short change surrounding the animation" >amazon.co.jp "Eureka January 2016 extra edition ◎ world of Erik Satie" (Seidosha, 2015.11.27) [Visual] "Parade" de Satie(color 8 pages), [Seeking for image] Innocent and innovative, regard the animation "Parade" / interview of Koji Yamamura by Junichi Konuma (11pages) >Seidosha"Eureka ◎ world of Erik Satie" >amazon.co.jp
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Begone Bell Care | Short animation | March 2014 | Canada, Japan | 3'40" | 2,600 x 784px, HD, DCP | 3.31:1 | Stereo | No dialogue | Making of | Stills | French: Dialogue en couleurs Spanish: Fantasía en sonidos de campana Arabic: ألوان الجرس Russian: Звонкая и красочная фантазия Italian "Capriccio per Colori e Campane" German "Hinfort läutende Sorgen!" Production: Yamamura Animation Painting: Sanae & Koji YAMAMURA Music: “Christmas Cracker” Musique Concrete and Original, composer: ARP. Maurice Blackburn Organ Solo, composer: R. Fleming Guitar Solo, composer: Eldon Rathburn “Mail Early for Christmas” Composer: Eldon Rathburn Production: Yamamura Animation Partners: Quartier des Spectacles & National Film Board of Canada Created in 2014 within the framework of the Digital Spring, produced by the NFB and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership and incorporating the following Normand McLaren film extract of "Begone Dull Care" in 1949. "Begone Dull Care" has a credit “Painting by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart”. Koji reproduce as same collaboration like McLaren and Evelyn Lambart to paint together with his wife, Sanae who is a co founder of Yamamura Animation, Inc. and an abstract painter, too. "Begone Dull Care" painted on 35 mm film directly. This film is drawin freely in long roll paper for the ticket vending machine and it is edit the music cutting like the McLaren and it is became a visual music by painted on paper. McLAREN WALL-to-WALL
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2013  (C) Yamamura Animation |
five fire fish | Short animation | May 2013 | Canada, Japan | 1'29" | SD, DCP | 4:3 | Stereo | No Dialogue | Stills | Direction, Animation and Painting: YAMAMURA Koji Production: Yamamura Animation Music: Maurice Blackburn It is improvised to create on an iPad app McLAREN's WORKSHOP, Etching on film. Almost motions happened to synchronize with music of McLaren. McLaren's Workshop iPad app McLAREN's WORKSHOP
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2013   (C)Koji Yamamura / NHK Enterprises |
The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki | Short animation | 2013 | Japan | 12'07" | HD, DCP | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles | Sketches | Storyboards | Stills | Dialogue | French title: Récit des temps anciens : épisodes de Hyûga Narration: Akashi Isamu, Endo Fukiko Script, Animation, Direction: Yamamura Koji Music: Ueno Koji Production: NHK Enterprises English Translation: Dean Shimauchi Japan's oldest chronicle, Kojiki or "Record of Ancient Matters" was compiled in 712. It begins with the creation myth and the emergence of gods. 4 episode where are located at Hyuga, "The Cleansing""Sun Goddess Amaterasu""Blooming Flowers" and "Umisachi and Yamasachi" were made into animation. Official selection
Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2013
International Short Film Competition in MONSTRA - Lisbon Animated Film Festival 17th Japan Media Arts Festival World Festival of Animated Film - ANIMAFEST ZAGREB 2014 |
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2011  (C) Yamamura Animation |
Anthology with Cranes | Short animation | 2011 | Japan | 1'55" | HD, DCP | 16:9 | Stereo | No Dialogue | Stills | Original painting (17th century): Tawaraya Sotatsu Direction, Animation and Painting Yammaura Koji In between: Yamamura Koji, Nakata Ayaka, Tanaka Miki Assistant: Yamamura Sanae Sound Design: Kasamatsu Koji Mix: Saito Kenji Thanks to Hashiguchi Erika, Chiyoda Raft Production: Yamamura Animation Spans 13 meters 53 cm long picture scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, "Tsuru shitae waka kan (Anthology with Cranes)" (17th Century) is a unique painting to evoke the moving image. Yamamura try to decipher this "Anthology with Cranes" and the intent of Sotatsu Tawaraya, finished in experimental work and interpret it as animation.  |
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             (C) 2011 National Film Board of Canada / NHK / Polygon Pictures |
Muybridge's Strings | Short animation | 2011 | Canada, Japan | 12'39" | 35mm, HD, DCP| 16:9, Vista(1:1.85) | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Stereo | No dialogue | Sketches | Drawings | Production Scene | Stills | Trailer | Makig of Video; Tokyo/Montrael | Text | Techniques: Drawing and painting on paper Director, Script, Edit, Design, Animation: Yamamura Koji Animation assistant: Yamamura Sanae Original music: Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand Sound design: Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand Musician: Denis Chartrand, Pierre-Yves Martel, Terri Hron Arrangements: Normand Roger Foley: Lise Wedlock Technical co-ordinator: Julie Laperrière On-line: Denis Pilon Re-recording: Shelley Craig Recording: Luc Léger, Geoffrey Mitchell Marketing manager: Christine Noél Administration: Gisèle Guilbault, Rosalina Di Sario Executive producers: David Verrall, Saito Kenji, Shiota John Shuzo Producer: Michael Fukushima, Keisuke Tsuchihashi, Shuzo John Shiota Production: National Film Board of Canada, NHK and Polygon Pictures   Can time be made to stand still? Can it be reversed? Koji Yamamura's Muybridge's Strings is a meditation on this theme, contrasting the worlds of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge -- who in 1878 successfully photographed consecu- tive phases in the movement of a galloping horse -- and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her. Moving between California and Tokyo, between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first, the film focuses on some of the high points in Muybridge's troubled life and intercuts them with the mother's surrealistic daydreams -- a poetic clash that explores the irrepressible human desire to seize life's fleeting moments, to freeze the instants of happiness. Enriched by Koji Yamamura's refined artistry and Normand Roger's soundtrack, Muybridge's Strings observes the ties that cease to bind, fixes its gaze on the course of life, and presents a moment in time suspended on the crystalline notes of a canon by J.S. Bach. Awards: Firebird Awardn36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, April 2012 The Great (Under)estimated Award: 18th International Film Festival "Etiuda & Anima" , Poland, November SILVER MIKELDI FOR ANIMATION: 53rd International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain, November Excellence Prize (Animation Division): 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Japan, March 2012 Special Prize: 14th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, August 23 - 26 2012 NFB Best Canadian Film or Video Award: 15th Toronto Reel Asian International film festival (Toronto, November / Richmond Hill, November Special Prize of the Jury (Grande Prémio do Júri): 35th CINANIMA Internantional Animated Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal, November, 2011 Prize RTP2: Onda Curta: 35th CINANIMA Internantional Animated Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal, November, 2011 Jury’s Special Mentioning II: 14th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Animated Dreams, Estonia, November Honorary Mention: 54th Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, October, 2011 Official selection
35th Montreal World Film Festival (Canada, August 18 - 28 2011) Short Films in competition
Ottawa international Animation Festival (Canada, September 21 - 25 2011) in competition anima 2012 (Belgium, February 17 -26 2012) International Competition - Short films 32th Genie Awards (Canada, March 08 2012) Nominee: Best Animated Short 11th International festival of animated films AniFest 2012 (Teplice&Duchcov, Czech Republic, 26 April – 1 May 2012) 5-15 min Short Film competition 65th Yorkton Film Festival (Canada, May 24 to 27 2012) Golden Sheaf Awards Nomiatee Melbourne International Animation Festival(Australia, June 17 - 24 2012) International Competition Animator 2012 5th International Animation Festival (Poznan, Poland, July 13 to 19 2012) Competition 7th Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Sapporo, Japan September 12 -17 2012) International Competition Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (UK, Bristol, September 18 - 23 2012) In Competition 14. Internationales Trickfilm-Wochenende Wiesbaden(Germany, October 18 - 21 2012) International Competition "Best of International Animation Animpact Max 2012 (Korea, November .28 -December ) Ani InpactOfficial screening: Cannes Film Market, Not Short on Talent (France May 2011, World Premier) 38th Telluride Film festival(Colorado, USA, September 2 - 5 2011) Filmmakers of Tomorrow : Calling Cards Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada, September 25 - October 14 2011) Canadian Images: Fire 55th London Film Festival (UK, October 12-27, 2011) Short Cuts & Animation » International Animation Panorama Programme 2 24th Tokyo International Film Festival (Japan, October 28, 2011) No Animation, No Future San Francisco International Animation Festival (USA, November 11 - 14 2011) Top Drawers Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (Canada, November 2 -6 2011) 25th International Francophone Film Festival in Acadie (Canada, November 17 - 26 2011) SÉANCE 15 SÉANCE ANIMATION ANILOGUE International Animation Festival (Budapest - Vienna, Novmber 23 - December 1 2011) World Panorama 8th International Animated Film Festival (Slovenia, December 12 -18 2011) Pierre Yves Drapeau: Film Sound & Music Taketoyo Animation Film Festival (Japan, December 18 2011) ANIMATION NOW 27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA, January 26 to February 5 2012) Animation Shorts 2 8th Japan Film Festival (Korea, Soeul Juanuary 26~30 2012, Busan February 2 ~ 6 2012) Koji Yamamura and Young animations Victoria Film Festival (Canada, February 3 to 12 2012,) SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATIONS ALIVE! (Odeon Theatre 12:15pm Feb 11) FUTURE MEDIA FESTIVAL 2012 (Taiwan, January 01 to 19 February 2012) Canadian Digital Animation Works Nipponconection Film Festival 2012 (Germany, May 2 -6 2012) Spaces in Between: Indie Animated Shorts from Japan 19th Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (Germany, May 08 -13 2012) Panorama Animafest Zagreb 2012 (Croatia, May 29 - June 3 2012) Grand Panorama Jerusalem International Film Festival (Israel, July 5 - 14 2012) Animation for All Anima Mundi (Brazil, Rio de Janeiro 13 - 22 July 2012, Sao Paulo 25 -29 July 2012,) PANORAMA - NON COMPETITIVE 16th Seuol International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Korea, July 18 - 22 2012) Non-Competition SICAF Choice Sakhalin Film Festival (Uzjno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, Russia, 24-29 of August 2012) animation program 8th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna (Bulgaria, September 10-15) Retrospective program SHORTPIECE! Sendai Short Film Festival 2012 (Shendai, Japan, September 15 -17) Animations related Japan with Canada London International Animation Festival (UK, October 26 - November 04 2012) Retrospective program Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Tiwan, November 8 - 22 2012,) Film Cult(URE):Animation Collection Gone Crazy Japan Media Arts Festival Kobe (Kobe, November 17 - 25 2012) Japan Media Arts Festival@HYPER JAPAN 2012 Christmas (UK, November 23- 25 2012) Japan Media Arts Festival@Animahenasyon (Philippines, November 26 - 29 2012) Japan Media Arts Festival@Toulouse Game Show (France, December 1-2 2012) Japan Media Arts Festival@J-FEST (Moscow, December 1-2 2012) 35th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand (France, February 1-9 2013) Particules imaginairess Screenings: Tokyo Metoropolitan Museumof Photography (Japan, September 17 -October 7 2011, Asia Premier) Palo Alto International Film Festival (USA, Palo Alto Children's Theater, September 30 2011, 12:30pm) Geidai Arts in Tokyo Marunouchi (Japan, October 29 2011, 18:30pm) Animation and Music on Stage, presented by Tokyo University of the Arts Shibuya UPLINK (Japan, Nomenber 19- Decmber 2 2011) Nagoya cinéma thèque (Japan, January 2 - 13 2012, Official Site) ASIFA-SF Presents Independent Animators (USA, Exploratorium’s McBean Theatre, January 13 2012) Forza Sogawa (Japan, Toyama, January 14~20 2012) cinma thque Takasaki (Japan, Gunma, February 4 to 10 2012) Cine-mondo (Japan, Kanazawa, February 11 to 24 2012) Theater Kino (Japan, Sapporo, February 18 to 24 2012) Umeda Garden Cinema (Japan, Osaka, February 25 - March 09 2012) Nihon no uta Film Festival Koji Yammaura special (Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku, K's cinema, March 12 201, Official Site, Nihon no uta Caravan) Kobe Art Villege Center (Japan, Hyogo, March 03 - 16 2012) Kyoto Minami-Kaikan (Japan, Kyoto, March 24 - April 06 2012) Theater Ciema (Japan, Saga, April 14 - 20 2012) Jack & Betty (Japan, Yokohama, June 16 2012) Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, University of Tokyo(Japan, Tokyo, July 07 2012) SKIP CITY Sai-No-Kuni Visual Plaza (Saitama, 2012.06.2 - 07.22) Muybridge's Strings: Yamamura Animation & NF Hatchoza (Hiroshima, August 25 -31, 2012) Fukuoka independence film festival2012 (Fukuoka Asia art museum, Septmeber 8 2012)
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Tokyo/Montreal - Making process of "Muybridge's Strings" | Documentary | 2011 | Japan | 14'55" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles | Direction, Camera, Edit: Yamamura Koji, Sanae Produce: Yamamura Animation In Tokyo at Yamamura Animation, drawing and animation process of "Muybridge's Strings", in Montreal at NFB, depicting the sound produced. The documentary of making "Muybridge's Strings"(2011).
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2007      (C) Yamamura Animation |
A Child's Metaphysics | Short animation | 2007 | Japan | 5'08" | 35mm, HD, DCP | Vista(1:1.85) / 16:9 | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Stereo | No dialogue | Storyboards | Stills | Directed by Yamamura Koji Script, Edit, Character Design, Animation & Background Drawing: Yamamura Koji Music: Sergei Prokofiev Music Arrangement: Shimizu Hitomi(SYZYGYS) Sound Design: Kasamatsu Koji Producer: Yamamura Koji Japan Arts Fund Production: Yamamura Animation A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are provided by fishes, a child who cannot say anything because of a zipper across his mouth.Ecology and philosophy of children with sadness and humor. Awards: Prémio ONDA CURTA: MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival Excellence Prize (Animation Division): Japan Media Arts Festival Special Jury Prize: Hida International Animation Festival of Folktales and Fables. Official selection
AniFest in Třeboň
SICAF 2008 Zagreb ANIFEST 2008 Annecy 2008 20th Tokyo International Film Festival Anilogue '07 Animateka '07 31st Göteborg International Film Festival Animac 2008 19th Ankara International Film Festival
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            (C) Yamamura Animation / SHOCHIKU |
Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor | Short animation | 2007 | Japan | 21'00" | HD cam, 35mm, HD, DCP | 16:9, Vista(1:1.85) | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles | Stills | Trailer | Makig video | Dialogue | ORIGINAL STORY Franz Kafka “Ein Landarzt” SCRIPT, STORY BOARD, CAMERA & EDITOR Koji Yamamura MUSIC Hitomi Shimizu(SYZYGYS) / SOUND DESIGN Koji Kasamatsu DIRECTED BY Koji Yamamura Voices DOCTOR Sensaku Shigeyam DOCTOR'S VOICE 1 Shigeru Shigeyama/DOCTOR'S VOICE 2 Doji Shigeyama PACKHORSE DRIVER Shime Shigeyama/ROSA Hitomi Kanehara/BOY Ippei Shigeyama CO PRODUCTION Yamamura Animation, Inc. PRODUCTION, SALES & DISTRIBUTION Shochiku Co., Ltd. The Lying thick snow at a cold night, the humble doctor got a news of emergency arrives. It all starts. mercy of strange village people and paranoia family obsessed a doctor thrown under the wintry sky. Theater of the absurd that was in the original short stories of literary Kafka of the Czech Republic. Awards: Grand Prize: Ottawa International Animation Festival Grand Prize: 13th Hiroshima International Animation Festival Grand Prize: MONSTORA Lisbon Animated Film Festival Grand Prize: Internationales TrickFilm Festival STUTTGART Grand Prize: I Castelli Animati Golden Jabberwocky: International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland Best Short Film: ANIMADRID, Spain Prize for Best Short Film: AniFest, Czech Best Film in Category III: KROK International Animation Festival Silver Dove: International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Excellence Prize: Japan Media Arts Festival Silver Peg Bar: animanima Inaternational Animation Festival in Serbvia Ofuji Noburo Award: Mainichi Film Concour Bunka films 7th rank 81th Kinema-Junpo Best Ten Official selection
Canne International Film Festival. Market screening
Annecy 2007 Japanese Cartoon Koji Yamamura screening in Moscow Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Cinema C - Thermal Rhode Island International Film Festival, August Melbourne International Film Festival, August Fantoche 2007, September Ottawa International Animation Festiva, September KROK International Animation Festival, October ANIMADRID, October 45th New York Film Festival, October THE FESTIVAL: JAPANESE OCTOBER in Ravenna Turin Official , October SITGES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF CATALONIA, October MONTREAL INT'L FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA, October Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, October 20th Tokyo International Film Festival, October 2007 Curta Cinema RIO DE JANEIRO INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, November International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, November FREDRIKSTAD ANIMATION FESTIVAL, November Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, November International Film Festival "Etiuda & Anima 2007" , November LES SOMMETS DU CINEMA D’ANIMATION, November Animation Nation, November 9th Animated Dreams, November I Castelli Animati, December Anilogue, December Animateka, December 31th Göteborg International Film Festival, February, 2008 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, February, 2008 Anima 2008, February, 2008 Animac 2008 Retorospective Program, March, 2008 19th Ankara International Film festival, March, 2008 15. Internationales TrickFilm Festival STUTTGART '08, May AniFest, May MONSTRA 2008 Lisbon Animated Film Festival, May 20th Sukagawa International Short Film festival, May Anima Mundi 2008 Curta Metragem, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janairo HIROSHIMA 08 12th International Animation Festival, Japan, August animanima Inaternational Animation Festiva, Servia, September 10th Annual Animation Show of Shows, Dreamworks Animation, Savannah College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Mass Art, Shool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University, Rhode Island Scool of Design, Brown University, Blue Sky, ASIFA NY, NYU, SVA, Pratt, Parsons, Electronic Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Design, ASIFA Seattle, ASIFA PortlandBay Area, PDI, Deramworks, Electronic Arts, Industrial Light and Magic, ASIFA SF, Pixar, Big Rock, Skywalker Ranch Imagemovers Digital, Electronic Arts, Tippett Studios Southern California, ASIFA Hollywood, Sony Animation Disney Animation 27th Uppsala International Short Film Festiva, October Holland Animation Film Festival, November Review, article: Yurameki, Furueru sekai [Nobuaki Doi Animations creators & critics ASIFA Magazine 2007] "Komik des passiven Körpers: Kôji Yamamura Animationsfilm Kafka - Ein Landarzt (2007)" [Kentaro Kawashima, Körperinszenierungen im japanischen Film 2016]Metamorphosis as Origin–Koji Yamamura’s Short Animation Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor [Kentaro Kawashima 2019] Official Site (OnlyJapanese) Film prints Archive: Hiroshima City Cinematographic and Audio-Visual Library
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Fig | Short animation | 2006 | Japan | 4'55" | HD, DCP | 16:9, Vista (1:1.66) | Stereo | No dialogue| Stills | Direction, Script, Editing: Yamamura Koji Animation: Yamamura Koji, Arai Chie Inking, Technical Design: Yamamura Koji, Yamamura Sanae Music: Yamamoto Seiichi Sound Design: Kasamatsu Koji Sound Effects: Matsunaga Yoshiki “Fig” is a part of the omnibus movie “Tokyo loop”, created by 16 artists’ short films based on the theme Tokyo. “Fig” is a part by Koji Yamamura. The Tokyo Tower and the window transform themselves into the characters, and roam in the night of Tokyo.
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2005        (C) Yamamura Animation |
The Old Crocodile | Short animation | 2005 | Japan | 13'00" | HD, 35mm, DCP | 16:9, Vista (1:1.85) | Dolby Digital | Japanese, English, French subtitles, English subtitles | Storyboards | Objects | Production Scene | Stills | Trailer | Making of The Old Crocodile | Dialogue | Original story and Illustrations by Leopold Chauveau Based on ‘Histoire du Vieux Crocodile’ (Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Text & illustrations by Léopold Chauveau in 1923 Japanese text: Deguchi Yukoh1, 1986 Narrated by Peter Barakan Direction, Editing, Animation, Producer: Yamamura Koji Sound Design: Kasamatsu Koji Music: "BALANDA AND DOROT DANCES" Recorded in SUDAN by David Fansjawe CHAPPELL RML WORLD RECORDINGS "AFRICAN TRILOGY 2" NICHION SOUNDS LIBRARY Production: Yamamura Animation A very old crocodile, so old that he had witnessed the building of the pyramids, was suffering from rheumatism, and no longer able to catch his food. In desperation, he decided to eat his great grand son. Although his thousands of years of longevity entitled him to much respect, the family decided he would have to be put down. Unable to bear the disrespect of his family, the old crocodile said goodbye to the Nile. One day the old crocodile met an octopus. The octopus treated her new friend to a variety of fish that she caught just for him. When the night fell, he couldn’t restrain himself from eating one of the octopus’s legs. Since then, the old crocodile began to help himself to the octopus’ leg every night… Awards: Grand Prize: Hida International Animation Festival of Folktales and Fables Special Jury Prize: The Best International Animation Film: 3rd annual International Animated Film Festival in Vilnius -Tindirindis Special Prize: 12th Hiroshima International Animation Festival Excellence Prize: Japan Media Arts Festival The Best Film in Category B: CINANIMA2005 Award for best screenplay: Wissembourg Animated Film Festival (RICA) Official selection
Annecy 2005
Tabor Film festival Anima Mundi 2005 54th Melbourne International Film Festival London International Animation Film Festival Ars Electronica Festival Fantoche KROK 2005 Ottawa International Animation festival Rever festival 48th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film CineEco 2005 L'ALTERNATIVA 2005. 12th BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FILMETS DE BADALONA ETIUDA&ANIMA 2005 FIKE 2005 - Évora International Short Film Festival Animated Dreams World premiere: "World of Yamamura Animation"(Japan Society)NewYork 16th Filmfest Dresden Anime Explosion! (The Kennedy Center) Anifest 2005 2005 Taiwan International Animation Festival Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival 2005 Reviews: "The acting and camerawork are up to Yamamura's usual fluid standard, and, at 13 minutes, it's much too short." by Taylor Jessen, Animation World Network(April 2005 USA) >Read all reviews(AWN) >QuickTime Clip (AWN) “If you want or need an antidote to the often predictable formulas of Hollywood studios’ animated fare, look no further than Koji Yamamura’s pencil-drawn film The Old Crocodile.” by Chris Grove, ANIMATION MAGAZINE(July 2005 USA)
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2003 |
Kefu ha Imoto no Mayoi Kaniniyuki Ayahito he Woiyu ni Shiga no Hana Koshite: Tokoku | part of feature animation | 2003 | Japan | 0'40" | 35mm, HD, DCP | Standard | Dolby Digital 5.1ch | Stereo | No diarogue | Sketch | Making of | Stills | Direction and animation: Koji Yamamura Planning, Chief Director: Kawamoto Kihachiro Production: IMAGICA Entertainment, Dentsu Tec Kawamoto Kihachiro is the director and director, and is a "renku animation" by 35 animation artists based on the theme of "Winter Day", a part of Basho's Basho Seven-part Collection. Following the production process, a feature-length documentary, "Poets on a Winter's Day," was created and shown along with how each animation artist interpreted the phrases in charge. Awards (Renku animation “Winter Day”): 77th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Cultural Film Official selection (Renku animation "Winter Day")
ANIMA2004
festival LES TOILES FILANTES Hong Kong Film Festival 2nd Taiwan Intenational Animation Festival 2004 ZAGREB2004 Singapore Animation Nation Film Festival 27th Asian American International Film Festival Chiavari International Animation Film Festival PUSAN International Film Festival 3rd International Film Festival for Childrens and Youth Fukuoka City General Library Video Hall Cinera The 19th Takasaki Film Festival Pre-Film Festival Hida International Fairy Tale Animation Film Festival 2004 Mitaka Forest Anime Festa 2004 16th Sugakawa International Short Film Festival Yufuin Cultural Record Film Festival 18th Digital Content Grand Prix Genre Award, Art Award 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Grand Prize 58th Mainichi Film Contest Nobuo Ohto Prize |
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   (C) Yamamura Animation |
Pieces | Short animation | 2003 | Japan | 2'22" | Bata cam, 35mm, HD, DCP | Standard | Stereo | No dialogue | Stills | Director, Animator, Designer, editor: Yamamura Koji Sound, Music: Reiji Kitazato Producer: Yamamura Koji Production: Yamamura Animation Some short pieces of funny animations and Phenakistoscope. Official Selection 10th Hiroshima International Animation Festival 3rd Taipei International Animation Festival
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2002           (C) Yamamura Animation |
Mt. Head | Short animation | 2002 | Japan | 10'00" | 35mm, HD, DCP | Standard | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Stereo | Japanese, subtitles: English, French, Chinese, Portuguese | Sketches | Storyboards | Drawings | Production Scene | Stills | Trailer | Dialogue | Direction, Animation, Design & Edit: Yamamura Koji Narration & Shamisen: Kunimot Takeharuo Original Story An old comic story (rakugo) "Atama-yama" Script: Yonemura Shoji Music: Kunimoto Takeharu, Syzygys, Shimizu Hitomi Sound Design: Kasamatsu Koji Production: Yamamura Animation After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his head and he gets into a lot of trouble. This animated film is a modern interpretation of the traditional Japanese Rakugo story "Atama-yama" set in contemporary Tokyo. Best Historic Selections: 9th rank: 50 Best Animated Films for 50 Years of ASIFA (2010 >List) 70th rank:100 FILMS FOR A CENTURY OF ANIMATION (2007>List) 8th rank at Animation category that specialists selected:100 selections in Japanese Media Art (Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2006) 10th rank at Bunka Films : 77th Kinema-Junpo Best Ten (2004) 90th rank : World and Japanese Animation Best 150 (Fusion Product, 2003) Awards: 75th Academy Awards 2003 Oscar® Nomination Short Film (Animated): The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Grand Prix (The Annecy Cristal): ANNECY 2003 Grand Prix: 16th World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb Grand Prix: 10th Hiroshima International Animation Festival Grand Prix(BEST ANIMATED FILM International Competition) MEDIAWAVE2003 Grand Prix(1.Prize International Competition Animated Film): 15th Filmfest Dresden The "RICA" Grand Prix for best animated short film: Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma d'Animation de Wissembourg Best Film Animation: FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FILMETS DE BADALONA Best Short Animated Film The 2nd Annual International festival of animated films AniFest 2003 Trebon Auszeichnung Computeranimation /Visual Effects Ars Electronica Festival Silver Dove: 46th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Silver Jaberrwocky: ETIUDA&ANIMA 2005 2nd PRIZE: Festival Internazionale Cinema d'Animazione e Fumetto 2004 Special Jury Award: CHIAVARI INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL Special Jury Prize: 8th I CASTELLI ANIMATI Special Jury Prix: the International Animated Film Festival in Vilnius Excellence Prize: 2002 (6th) Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize: Interfilm 19 short film festival Belrin Guilty Pleasures from each member of the jury (from Konstantin Bronzit): Holland Animation Film Festival BestAnimation selected by the Jury: Kinofilm 8th Manchester International Short Film festival Prix du Public for the best short film: 9th CINEMA TOUT ECRAN Festival Best Soundtrack Creation award: CLERMONT-FERRAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Special Mention: 19th International Short FilmFestival Berlin Special Mention: 12th Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart Official selection
Ottawa '02
cortoimolafestival International Short Film Festival CINANIMA '02 Black Nights Film Festival 32th International Film Festival Rotterdam Anima 2003 Animac 2003 Tampere Film Festival 2003 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capita Fredrikstad Animation Festival Tough-Eye International Tirku Animated Film Festival 2003 Melbourne International Animation Film Festival Expresionen Corto /Anima Mundi International Film Festival Kelibia 2003 Melbourne International Film Festival Brisbane Film Festival SICAF 2003 Edinburgh International Film Festival VI BARCELONA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - MECAL Fantoche Ars Electronica Festival 2nd international best of short film festivals tKROK International Animated Film Festival Le Triage’s International Animated Film Day/NEW INDEPENDENT ANIMATION FROM JAPAN in ICA 22nd Uppsala International Short Film Festival 14th San Sebastian Horror and Fantacy Film Festival BAF 03 LÅfAlternativa, X Independent Film Festival of Barcelona Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Best animated films of the year Animadrid Nippon Koma Festival 45th International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Festival of BILBAO 13th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival Review
The story that unfolds is surreal in nature, but the animation renders it quite riveting. >Site
Atama-yama no es la típica animación japonesa, es algo que sobrepasa esa y muchas fronteras. >Site The leading figure of his generation, Yamamura best represents the vitality, versatility and artistry of Japanese independent animation, and Mt. Head represents a pivotal point in an oeuvre that has drawn comparisons with influences as disparate as Paul Klee and Monty Python, while remaining true to its cultural roots. The tale of a stingy old man who plunges into madness after tearing out a cherry tree he discovers growing from his head from a pip he has swallowed, it provided the perfect taster to the director’s witty and often grotesque meditations on time, space and identity. >Site
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1999   (C) Yamamura Animation |
Your Choice ! | Short animation | 1999 | Japan | 10'00" | 35mm | Standard | Dolby 5.1ch, Dolby SR, Stereo | Japanese, English dialogue | Sketches | Drawings | Production Scene | Stills | Making Video: "Your Choice !" Workshop | Production: Yamamura Animation Supported by DENTSU Producer: Sawa Shigeki Director: Yamamura Koji, the 'Junior Directors' Script, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Takashi Sodo Sound Design: Kitazato Reiji, Kasamatsu Koji Raoul, an alligator, has a bad tooth, and also need a hair cut. Is he going to a barber, or a dentist, or neither of them? Madillo, an armadillo, wonders if he should bring an umbrella, or not. So, what is your choice? In the story of this animated film, a series of events which need judgements, spontaneity and decisiveness of the "Junior Directors" continue to occur. The film was completed with the ideas from those "Junior Directors" through having several workshops with them. Awards: 1st PRIZE from the Adult July in Animated Shorts: 1999 Chicago Internationale Children's Film Festival JURY'S SPECIAL PRIZE: 4th Seoul International Family Film Festival Official selection
14th International Festival of Film and Video for Children and Young Adults of Iran
7th ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival Annecy 2000 Asian Panorama Section: 11th GOLDN ELEPHANT International Children's Film Festival
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1995    (C) Yamamura Animation |
Kid's Castle | Short animation | 1995 | Japan | 5'00" | 35mm, HD | Standard | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Dolby SR | No dialogue | Sketches | Storyboards | Drawings | Stills | Production: KODOMO NO SHIRO, Yamamura Animation Producers: Hiruma Yukio, Yamamura Koji Director, Script, Animation: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Nobuyuki, AKIYOSHI STUDIO Music: Sudo Takashi Sound Design: Tsurumaki Yutaka, SOUND DESIGN YURUTA Sound Effects: TOYO ONKYO Take a journey into the imaginative world of Kid's Caste where a young boy's dreams make playing with toys a reality. As his room takes on exciting changes, you, too,will delight at the many different whimsical sounds and voices. Official selection
96 Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, The Festival of Light Filmfest, ANIMAC Mostra International de Cinema D'Animacio LLEIDA and 22th Hong Kong International Film Festival
Cinemagic 96- International Animated Film Festival of Lleida, Toronto Worldwide Short FILM Fesival and CIANIMA'97
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    (C) Yamamura Animation |
Kipling Jr. | Short animation | 1995 | Japan | 15'00" | 35mm, HD | Standard | Dolby Digital 5.1ch, Dolby SR | Japanese Dialogue, English subtitles | Storyboards | Design | Objects | Cels | Stills | Production: KODOMO NO SHIRO, Yamamura Animation Producers: Hiruma Yukio, Yamamura Koji Director, Script, Animation: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Nobuyuki, AKIYOSHI STUDIO Music: Syzygys Sound Design: Tsurumaki Yutaka, SOUND DESIGN YURUTA Sound Effects: TOYO ONKYO Voices: Anna Kipling: Shimizu Hitomi, Yohann Kipling: Yamamura Koji, Kip Kipling: Noguchi Ryoko, Rog, Poe: Odaka Kiriko A fantastic animation adventure about Kipling Jr., his father, mother, and a musical band led by Rog. Advanced animation techniques, yet to be seen on the screen, help to create incredible movements by animated dolls. Award: Awarded Honorable Mention Short Animation Film by Festival's Adult July Chicago International Children's Film Festival Official selection
96 Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival
FANTOCHE International Animation Film Festival Baden The Festival of Light Filmfest and ANIMAC Mostra International de Cinema D'Animacio LLEIDA Ottawa international animation festival INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VISUAL ARTS. HUNGARY 22nd Hong Kong International Film Festival Cinemagic 96- International Animated Film Festival of Lleida 6th MEDITERRANEAN FESTIVAL of NEW FILMAKERS-LARISSA
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1993 |
Short and Happy Life of a Goldfish | Short movie with animation | 1993 | Japan | 18'20" | 35mm, D2 | Standard | Stereo | Japanes, English | Stills | Direction, Script: Inudo Isshin Video shooting: Takahashi Kiyoshi Animation shooting: Narusawa Takao Music: Funakoshi Midori Recording Engineer: Yamaguchi Yu SE: Sato Toshiyuki On Line Edit: Mizuno Yo MA: Akamatsu Shigeo Steel: Takahashi Kiyoshi, Hiruma Yukio Animation: Yamamura Koji Japanese Narration: Komatsu Masao Japanese narration: Masao Komatsu Goldfish born in Tenjinnuma, a famous goldfish production area, were auctioned off and sold to Yokota Gumi. The goldfish scooped by elementary school student Mitsui at the night store scooping goldfish will be kept at his house. For a while, the goldfish attracted attention as a pet of the Mitsui brothers and sisters, but on that Christmas, the green turtle took its place and was sent to his sister, Kana's friend, Sacchan's house. Sachi-chan is a kind child and loved to name the goldfish Hiroshi, but one day in August, a forgotten goldfish left in the garden for cleaning was exposed to too much direct sunlight, Close the whole life without missing. 1 year old and 2 months. She cried and buried the goldfish in her grave, but a week later she forgot. Award: Grand Prize : Kirin Contemporary Award '93
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1991 |
The Elevator | Short animation | 1991 | Japan | 8'24" | VTR | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Storyboards | Drawings | Stills | Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music, Sound: Kurosawa Jun Camera: Seiei-sya Produce: Nichiei Production One morning, a boy dashes out the door of his apartment carrying a school bag on his back. He jumps into the building elevator as on any other day; but today, it won't stop and just keeps on going down.When it finally stops with a jolt and the door opens, the boy finds himself in a world deep under the ground. There his adventure begins. Award: 1st Prize of Category C: The 4th International Animation Festival in Japan Hiroshima '92
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1990 (C) Yamamura Animation |
Perspektivenbox Researcher's Research | Short animation | 1990 | Japan | 4'00" | 35mm, HD, 4K | Standard | No dialogue | Storyboards | Cels | Stills | Direction, Animation, Script: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Nobuyoshi Music: Ueno Koji Buildings, black crows, a flood of bar codes, clone-looking businessmen, shopping-addicted ladies...these images which probably symbolizes excessive, standardized and overcrowded modern cities are condensed in this animation. Various techniques, like modified photo, drawing animation, 3D object and permeating lighting are combined onto a multi-planed (line drawing) stand, with a challenge to express a unique sense of unity and compression.
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1989   (C) Yamamura Animation |
Japanese-English Pictionary | Short animation | 1989 | Japan | 12'00" | 16mm, HD, 4K | Standard | Mono | No dialogue, subtitles: Japanese and English | Storyboards | Drawings | Objects | Stills | Direction, Animation and Script: Yamamura Koji Music: Kurosawa Jun Both in English and Japanese, words develop in parallel from "A" to "Z"(from "A" to "Nn" in Japanese syllabary) taking the last syllable of the previous word. Ant-Take off-F..., Ari-Ririku-Ku... Along with the developments of those words, images metamorphoses using various animation technique so to be a pictorial encyclopedia of animation technique. あり りりく くだもの のど どう うちのめす すうじ じくずれ れんしゅう うか かじょう うみ みずくさ さんかく くう うみがめ め めだま まるた たいほう うなずく くんしょう うろこ こうてい いんたい いと と とりなおし しんか かくせんそう うき きあい いのち ちきゅう うま まぶた たいこ こうぶつ つな なす すりらあ あか かも もぞうひん Ant takeoff fruit throat trunk knockdown numeral landslide exercise emergence excess aquaticplant triangle eat turtle eye eyeball log gun nod decorations scale emperor retirement thread door retake evolution nuclear rainy yell life earth horse eyelid drum mineral line eggplant thriller red drake ersatZ Award: Special Jury Prize Award: Image Forum Festival '90, Tokyo Official selection: Tampele Short Film Festival, Finland 2nd Shanghai International Animation Film Festival 1989, China
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1988 |
Little Lunar Jug | Short animation | 1988 | Japan | 4'00" | 16mm, HD | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Stills | Direction, animation: Yamamura Koji A boy is waiting at a bus stop and dreaming a relationship between a moon, a bottle of rumne, bones, cicadas, and hard objects. |
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Ding Dong | Short animation | 1988 | Japan | 1'30" | 8mm, HD | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Drawing | Stills | Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Cut-out animation created for the Christmas screening event. As a man wearing sunglasses walks around the city holding a box of gifts, he meets strange people. Finally when the box opens, from inside... |
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1987 |
Heavenly Bodies's Score | Short animation | 1987 | Japan | 2'00" | 8mm, 16mm, HD | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Stills | Direction, animation: Yamamura Koji Music (1987 8mm version): M'saddar, Sana'a (1977) "Musique Arabo-Andalouse" Atrium Musicae de Madrid (Dir. Gregorio Paniagua) Music (1987年 16mm version): M'saddar, Sana'a (1977) "Musique Arabo-Andalouse" Atrium Musicae de Madrid (Dir. Gregorio Paniagua), Performance: Kurosawa Jun Music (2020 HD-version): Kurosawa Jun Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures. |
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Ladies & Gentlemen | Short animation | 19887 | Japan | 1’00" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | English | Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji An introductory video produced for solo exhibition held immediately after graduating from university. Clay animation. |
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  (C) Yamamura Animation |
Aquatic | Short animation | 1987 | Japan | 5'00" | 16mm, HD | Standard, 16:9 | Mono | No dialogue | Sketches | Storyboards | Production Scene | Stills | HD in 1992 is Produced by TBS Producer: Kohei Ando HD for archive is produced by Yamamura Animation Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Kurosawa Jun The stream of a mil, an apple flows down through the stream, where innumerable illusion of fish appears and disappears in the sky reflected in the water. Award: Prize by the president of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication: Hi-vision Award '92, Japan Official Selection: Hiroshima '87 2nd International Animation Festival, Japan Les International Festival National du Court Metraged Clermont-Ferrand, France 1st Shanghai International Animation Film Festival 1988, China 14th Hong Kong International Film Festival in '90 Internationaler Experimentalfilm Workshop Osnabruck
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1986 |
Freshwater | Short animation | 1986 | Japan | 3'33" | 16mm, HD | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Stills | Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Thanks to Kifune Tokumitsu, Tsunekawa Sanae, Hiruma Yukio, Furukawa Takuji Late night train, sleeping young man. A big carp comes in at the station. At night, various freshwater creatures appear and disappear in the night of the aquarium. The semi-actual situation and the animation of cutting paper with silver foil were shot on a multi-plane.
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1985 |
Noon | Live action | 1985 | Japan | 15’00" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Script, Camere, Direction: Yamamura Koji Actors: FurukawaTakuji, Jibaku Rei, Koizumi Futaro, Tsuruta Sadayo |
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Up turned | Short animation | 1985 | Japan | 2’30" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Direction, Animation, Sound: Yamamura Koji |
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| Moon Light | Live action | 1985 | Japan | 2’00" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Direction: Yamamura Koji |
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| How to Open the Milk Carton | Live action | 1985 | Japan | 2’00" | 8mm | Standard(3:4) | Mono | Japanese | Direction: Yamamura Koji |
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Natural History | Short animation | 1985 | Japan | 2'00" | 8mm, HD | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Storyboards | Stills | Direction, animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Willem Breuker "Augusta: Les Seigneurs En Cols Blancs" From "Drums In The Night / The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui” 1983 BVHAAST GRAMMOFOONPLATEN Inspired by Ishu Patel's After Life, and Pliny's Natural History, I draw and transforms medieval European creatures by drawing clay on a transmitted light stand. |
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Serenade | Short animation | 1985 | Japan | 4'00" | 8mm, 16mm, HD | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Objects | Stills | Direction, animation: Yamamura Koji Voices: Tsuchiya Kenji, Sugimoto Hideki, Kitayama Riko, Ueno Tosei Violin: Nakanishi Akiko Back Ground Photo: Furukawa Takuji A cannibalized egg as man's pet ate a woman at a bar at night or an old man who plays the violin, egg grows bigger day by day. One night without prey ... the poetry of the moon and the skeleton. This film made by half-shaped relief puppet technique and background of photos. The photo was located in Fussa. |
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| 1984 | N.G. Collection, etc. | Short animation | 1984 | Japan | 11’00"| 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Direction: Yamamura Koji |
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Fig.II | Live action | 1984 | Japan | 5’00"| 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Direction: Yamamura Koji |
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Dr. Owm Goes to the Star | Short animation | 1984 | Japan | 23'00" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Making of | Stills | Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Dr. Owm is an adventure puppet animation film aiming at a planet in search of treasure in a sailboat type spacecraft. |
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1982 |
Bra Koji's World | Short animation | 1982 | Japan | 5'00" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Direction, animation: Yamamura Koji |
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| 1979 | Parody Trailer | Short animation | 1979 | Japan | 2'00" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Council at the Kitchen | Short animation | 1979 | Japan | 3'00" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | Japanese | Stills | Direction, Animation, Music: Yamamura Koji Instant coffee, kettle, coffee cup and teacup are meeting at the table to discuss who eats this apples. Finally, the apple claimed "I belong mine." And then he ate himself and disappeared. |
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1978 |
SF Last Judgment | Short animation | 1978| Japan | 3'20" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Direction, animation: Yamamura Koji Film frame was set one size smaller, so that the hand of God would stick out of the frame. Animation using watercolor and cut paper. |
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Short Short Show Thearter | Short animation | 1978| Japan | 1'30" | 8mm | Standard | Mono | No dialogue | Stills | Direction, Animation, Arts, Music: Yamamura Koji The first animation at the age of 13 Koji Yamamura. Six small gags using cut paper and cels. |
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2021      |
Dozens of Norths Japanese title: Ikuta no Kita French title: Pléthore de nords | Feature animation | 4th August 2021 | Japan, France | 64'00" | 1.85:1, 16:9 | 5.1ch, Stereo | No dialogue | Subtitles: Japanese, English, French | Trailer@Vimeo | 2KTrailer@YouTube | 4KTrailer@YouTube | Music：Willem Breuker Soundtrack from “Drums In The Night / The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui” Willem Breuker Kollektief 1983 BVHaast Grammofoonplaten De gauche (La revolution), The Announcer, La valse de la Bourgeoisie (Au piano casserole), La complainte du soldat mort, Ouverture, Je ne veux pas aller avec toi (Anna et Murk), Spartakus, Anna, Hotel Mammoth Ui's Suite, Arturo Ui Based on the Illustrations and Text by Yamamura Koji, published at the Monthly Bungaku-Kai (2012-2014), Bungeishunju Animation: Yamamura Koji, Yano Honami, Nakata Ayaka Coloring & Background Art: Yamamura Koji Compositing & Visula Effects: Yamamura Koji Digital Work Assistant: Yammaura Sanae Sound Desiner & Re-recordingMixer: Kasamatsu Koji Dubbing Stage: Rakuonsha Studio 2001: English translation: Michael Lazarin French translation: Ilan Nguyên Thanks to Tanaka Mitsuko, Ohshima Yumiko, Asai Mariko, Sekiguchi Seiji, Nicolás Guarín León, Julia Ai Sai, Arjen Gorter, Bernard Hunnekink Producers: Yamamrua Koji, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron Chief Financial Officer: Cyril Smet Director of Productions: Tanguy Olivier Production Manager: Pierre Boivin Production Assistants: Yammaura Sanae, Emilie Coppier Technical Manager: Christian Serres Administrative assistant: David Dos Santos Festival & International Sale: Miyu Distribution Distributor: Luce Grosjean Produced by Yamamura Animation, Miyu Productions Script, Editing and Direction Yamamura Koji Synopsis: North is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in these Norths. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I'm starting to wonder my efforts came to nothing. I'm just getting the occasional recognition of the existence of the world through the dull pain changes shape little by little. Offisila Site http://www.yamamura-animation.jp/dozensofnorths.html Award: Special Jury Award for the Feature Films: 8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan, 2021.11 Official Selection: World premiere: 8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan, 2021.11 International premiere: PÖFF25 25th Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2021.11 Official invitation film, Closing Film: 2nd Tatsuno International Film Festival, Japan, 2021.11 Openeing film of the International Animated Feature Films competition: 21st Future Film Festival, Italy, 2021.12 Exibition SDGsxARTs Exibition, 22 July ~ 31 August 2021, University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan >Site Press Interview: "BLINK BLANK # 3", April 2021, France >Site Interview: "InCG Issue 47:Non-creative thinking of animators", June 2021, Taiwan >Site Interview: Gifu Shimbun's 140th Anniversary Project "HIBINO EARTH PAPER 2021", 26 September 2021, Japan |
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2020    |
The Unnameable Dance Frenchi title: une danse innommable | Feature documentary | 2020 | Japan | 4K, HD, 35mm | 16:9, Vista | 5.1ch, Stereo | Japanes dialogue | Cast: Min Tanaka, Rin Ishihara, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yoshihide Otomo, Lajkó Félix, Seigo Matsuoka Executive Producer: Isshin Inudo / Minori Inudo Producer: Egawa Akira Animation artwork: Koji Yamamura Music: Koji Ueno Sound director: ZAKYUMIKO Music Producer: Teru Yasui Camere: Motonobu Kiyoku / Yoshihiro Ikeuchi / Naoya Ikeda Edited by Yusuke Yamada Screenplay / Director: Isshin Inudo Production: Skydrum >Official Site Official Selection: 26th Busan International Film Festival, Korea, 2021.10 34th Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan, 2021.10 |
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2006 |
TOKYO LOOP | Feature animation | 2006 | Japan | 75'00" | HD, DCP | 16:9, Vista (1:1.66) | Stereo | No dialogue | PRODUCTION: Imageforum Directors: SatoMasahiko+ UedaMio,Tanaami Keiichi, SeikeMika, Oyama Kei, Shiriagari Kotobuki, Tabaimo, Uda Atuko, Aihara Shinyo, Ito Takashi, Shimao Maho, Wada Atsushi, Murata Tomoyasu, Furukawa Taku, Yamamura Koji, Kuri Yoji, Iwai Toshio MUSIC: Yamamoto Seiichi "Fig" Directed by Yamamura Koji Script, Edit, Character Design, Animation & Background Drawing Koji Yamamura Animator: Chie Arai SOUND EFFECTS Koji Kasamatsu “TOKYO LOOP ” is created by 16 artists' short films based on the theme Tokyo.
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2002   |
Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows | Feature animation | 2002 | Japan | 77'00" | HD, 35mm | Standard | Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles | Production: TV Tokyo Producer: Kubota Osamu Director: Inudo Isshin Music: coba Animation: Yamamura Koji Navigator: Jun Murakami Cast: Ichikawa Mikaco, Tsukamoto Shinya, Terashima Susumu, Hoshino Mari, Sakai Miki, Kataoka Reiko, Ohsugi Ren, Ito Atsushi, Shirai Akira, Ohtake Shinobu, Kato Takeshi. Noda Hideki, Kubozuka Yosuke, Danda Yasunori, Ishizuka Hidehiko, Adachi Yumi, Kishida Kyoko Inuyama is interested in the presence of the mysterious crocodile "Jake" that has been witnessed around the world. He continues to travel around the world, hearing the testimony of various people of different ages, nationalities, and witnesses who witnessed "Jake."
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| 2003 |
Renku animation “Winter Day” Kefu ha Imoto no Mayoi Kaniniyuki Ayahito he Woiyu ni Shiga no Hana Koshite by Tokoku | Feature animation | 2003 | Japan | 105'00" | 35mm | Standard | Dolby Degital 5.1ch | Stereo | Japanese | Sketch | Production Scene | Stills | Direction and animation: Koji Yamamura Planning, Chief Direvtor: Kawamoto Kihachiro Voices: Basho: Mitani Noboru, Nomizu: Kishida Kyoko, load: Kashiwagi Ryuta, Tokoku: Sasaki Mutsumi, Shigego: Yoshimi Kazutomo, Shohei: Watanabe Minoru Mutsui Production: IMAGICA Entertainment, Dentsu Tec Participating directors (in order of appearance): Yuri Norshtein, Kawamoto Kihachiro, Oi Fumio, Nomura Tatsutoshi, Suzuki Shinichi, Fukushima Haru, Ishida Takuya, Raul Selve, Morita Noriko, Shimamura Tatsuo, Okuyama Reiko, Kotabe Youichi, Alexander Petrov, Yonesho Maya, Kuri Yoji, Ruru Rubi, Hayashi Seiichi, Isshiki Azuru, Bushetslav Poyar, Yasuda Katsushi, Katayama Masahiro, Mark Baker, Ito Yuichi, Kurosaka Keita, Yokosuka Reiko, Asano Yuko, IKIF, Ei Wang Kashiwa, Takahata Isao, Hikone Norio, Mori Masaaki, Furukawa Taku, Co Hoedman, Jacques Drouin, Yuzaki Yusako, Yamamura Koji Kawamoto Kihachiro is the director and director, and is a "renku animation" by 35 animation artists based on the theme of "Winter Day", a part of Basho's Basho Seven-part Collection. Following the production process, a feature-length documentary, "Poets on a Winter's Day," was created and shown along with how each animation artist interpreted the phrases in charge. Awards: 77th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Cultural Film 18th Digital Content Grand Prix Genre Award, Art Award 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Grand Prize 58th Mainichi Film Contest Nobuo Ohto Prize Official selection: ANIMA2004 festival LES TOILES FILANTES Hong Kong Film Festival 2nd Taiwan Intenational Animation Festival 2004 ZAGREB2004 Singapore Animation Nation Film Festival 27th Asian American International Film Festival Chiavari International Animation Film Festival PUSAN International Film Festival 3rd International Film Festival for Children and Youth Fukuoka City General Library Video Hall Cinera The 19th Takasaki Film Festival Pre-Film Festival Hida International Fairy Tale Animation Film Festival 2004 Mitaka Forest Anime Festa 2004 16th Sugakawa International Short Film Festival Yufuin Cultural Record Film Festival
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2019 / 2017   (C)NHK-ED |
Bells are Ring | Music Video | 2019 / 2017 | Japan | 1'30" | HD, 4K | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Stills | Lyrics: Yamamura Koji Composition: Sakurai Eiko Singers: Hanada Yuuichiro, Ono Atsuko Dancers(2017): Hanada Yuuichiro, Ono Atsuko, Kobayashi Yoshihisa, Uehara Risa, Choromy, Mu Mu, Garapico Dancers(2019): Hanada Yuuichiro, Ono Atsuko, Fukuo Makoto, Akimoto Azuki, Choromy, Mu Mu, Garapico Animation, Design, Diretior: Yamamura Koji Production: NHK Educational Broadcasted at "Okasantoissho Summer Special", Ｅtv 31st July 2017  NHK latest songbook of Okaasan to Issho Omame Sentai Bibibiin >Amazon.jp |
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| 2013 (C)Koji Yamamura / NHK Enterprises |
Kojiki Girl Travelogue | TV program | 2013 | Japan | 59'00" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Reporter: Tomoka Kurotani Animation part; The Cleansing（3'17”）、Sun Goddess Amaterasu（2'11”）, Blooming Flowers（2'31"）, Umisachi and Yamasachi（3'30"） Script, Animation, Direction: Yamamura Koji Music: Ueno Koji Production: NHK Enterprises March16th Saturday am11:00 - 11:59 NHK BS Premium March 24th Sunday am10:05 - 11:04 NHK World Premium Japan's oldest chronicle, Kojiki or "Record of Ancient Matters" was compiled in 712. It begins with the creation myth and the emergence of gods. 4 episode where are located at Hyuga, "The Cleansing""Sun Goddess Amaterasu""Blooming Flowers" and "Umisachi and Yamasachi" were made into animation. Animation part: |
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2011      (C)NHK-ED |
Prekiso Eigo | TV program | 2011 | Japan | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | English | Production: NHK Educatinal Art direction Character Design, Animation, Opening title direction: Yamamura Koji "Prekiso Eigo" is an English Educational program on NHK. micro story | TV Series | 2011-2012 | Japan | 2'00" x 12 episode | HD | Standard | Stereo | English | Storyboards | Stills | Part of "Prekiso Eigo" (Animation, Direction) Text: Arthur Binard, Music Toshio Nakagawa, NHK Education, 2 mint. every month 2011.04~2012.03 / 2012.04～2013.3 on air ar NHK ETV prekiso-eigo dvd box 2011 NHK E Tele Saturday 18: 50-19: 00 / Tuesday 10: 05-10: 15 / Thursday 10: 05-10: 15 FY2012 / 2013 (rebroadcast of FY2011) NHK E Tele Saturday 18: 50-19: 00 / Monday 10: 05-10: 10 (2012 only) / Thursday 10: 05-10: 15 FY2014 / 2015 (Rebroadcast of FY2014) NHK E Tele (Normal version) Saturday 18: 50-19: 00, Thursday 10: 05-10: 15 / (5 minutes version (animation only)) Monday 5: 50-5: 55 (Ends at 5:53 minutes) ・ Tuesday 19: 50-19: 55 (ends at 19:53) 2016 (Rebroadcast in 2014) NHK E-Tele (Normal version) Saturday 18: 50-19: 00, Thursday 10: 05-10: 15 / (5 minutes version (animation only)) Friday 15: 55-16: 00 (ends at 15:58) 2017 (Rebroadcast in 2014) NHK E Tele (Normal Edition) Thursday 10: 05-10: 15 #01 April "Colors" (2011) #02 May "Shapes"(2011) #03 June "How Many?"(2011) #04 July "Somewhere New" (2011) #05 August "Night Time"(2011) #06 September "Sea Life"(2011) #06 October "I Can Write" (2011) #08 November "Noisy Oysters" (2011) #09 December "Grass, Grass, Grass"(2011) #10 January "See History" (2011) #11 February "Hippo Birthday" (2011) #12 March "City lights and Starlight" (2012)
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| 2001 |
Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows | TV Series | 2001 | Japan | 1'06" | Beta-cam SP | 16:9 | Stereo | No dialogue | Stills | Production: TV Tokyo Producer: Kubota Osamu Director: Inudo Isshin Music: coba Animation: Yamamura Koji Narration: Ichikawa Mikaco, Tsukamoto Shinya, Terashima Susumu, Hoshino Mari, Sakai Miki, Kataoka Reiko, Oosugi Ren, Ito Atsusi, Shirai Akira, Ohtake Shionobu, Kato Takeshi. Noda Hideki, Kubozuka Yosuke, Danda Yashunori, Ishizuka Hidehiko, Adachi Yumi, Kishida Kyoko, Murakami Jun First series 2001.7.1〜9.30, TV Tokyo Second series 2001.10.07~12.23, TV Tokyo #01 Mikaco Ichikawa #02 Shinya Tsukamoto #03 Susumu Terashima #04 Mari Hoshino #05 Miki Sakai #06 Reiko Kataoka #07 Ren Oosugi #08 Atusi Ito #09 Akira Shirai #10 Shionobu Ohtake #11 Takeshi Kato #12 Hideki Noda #13 Yosuke Kubozuka #14 Yashunori Danda #15 Hidehiko Ishizuka #16 Kumiko Aso #17 Ryo Kato #18 Suzuki Matuo #19 Keiko Takahashi #20 Noboku Nakaya #21 Kou Shibasaki #22 Seiichi Tanabe #23 Yumi Adachi #24 Kyoko Kishida #25 Jun Murakami
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2001 / 2019   (C)NHK-ED |
Asagohan March | Music Video | 2001 / 2019 | Japan | 2'25" | SD / 4K | 4:3 / 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Sketches | Storyboards | Drawings | Stills | Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Lyrics: Kitayoshi Yoichi Composition: Miyagawa Akira Production: NHK Educational Produced as a song in October with NHK Educational in "Okasan to Issho", remade 4K version in 2020. Broadcasted from 2001.10.01 to 10.31 on Educational Television (E-Tel) "Together with Mother", The 4K version will be broadcast on December 19, 2020 on NHK E-Tele "Okasan to Issho".  DVD NHK Asagoha March >Amazon.jp |
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2001  |
Weekend special "Zoku Ende no Yuigon: Tuka, Mirai Heno Taido" | TV program | 2001 | Japan | 50'00" | SD | Standard | Stereo | Japanese | Production: NHK, Grope Gendai Animation: Yamamura Koji, IKIF Chiikitsuka ga Sekai wo Kaehajimeta(Animation pert: 1'06") Braodcasted on NKH-BS in 19th October 2001. Mirai Bank Toujo (Animation part: 1'22") Braodcasted on NKH-BS in 20th October 2001. |
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1996  (C) Yamamura Animation |
Bavel's Book | Short animation | 1996 | Japan | 5'15" | D2, 16mm, HD, DCP | Standard | Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles | Sketches | Storyboards | Objects | Drawings | Stills | Production: Yamamura Animation Director, Script, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Syzygys, Shimizu Hitomi, Nishida Hiromi Sound Design: Arakawa Kazuhiko Broadcast on NHK Educational "Petit Petit Animen" from 1996. Voices: Brother: Takaaki Namiki, Sister: Yui Makino A boy and his young sister were curious about the book someone had left on a bench, and they opened the book. Then the small Tower of Bavel was completed on a page. Looking into the tower, they found an old man sitting and reading a book, surrounded by innumerable books. As the man turned pages, mythical animals appeared and disappeared. Awards: 1st prize, Animation, Adult July: Chicago Internationale Children's Film Festival Prize for Outstanding film Animation for T.V. Category:'97 Seoul Animation Expo Official selection: The WORLD ANIMATION CELEBRATION CIANIMA '97 Cartoombria 3ed International Animation Film Competition Anima mundi '98 Ottawa International Animation Festival ANNECY97 Film prints Film Archive: Fukuoka City Public Library
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1994 -1995   (C)Koji Yamamura/DOUZU/ NHK-ED/NHK-SW |
Pacusi | TV Series | 1994 -1995 | Japan | 1'00" x 18th episode and 1'30", Song of Pacusi:1'30", Bridge Animation: 0'10", | 35mm, D2, 4K| Standerd | Stereo | No dialogue | Sketches | Storyboards | Objects | Cels | Backgrounds | Production Scene | Stills | Making Video | Since April 1994, it has been broadcasted on NHK Educational "Okaasan To Issho" (regular broadcasting is until 1996, from 1999 irregular broadcasting) . Produce: NHK, Educational, Douzu Production: Yamamura Animation Direction, Animation, Script: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Studio Sound: NHK Music: Syzygys, Sudo Takashi Voices: Pacusi: Horiuchi Yoko, Baltazar: Sudo Takashi, Papa: Yamamura Koji, Mama: Shimizu Hitomi, Oto Oto: Yamamura Yuri "Song of Pacusi" Lyrics: Douzu, Composition, Song: Miyako Mieko Regular broadcasting is irregular until 1996 and thereafter until 1999. A total of six episodes were broadcast from December 22 to 24, 2016, two episodes per day. On July 31, 2017, we broadcast "Song of Pacusi". A total of four episodes were broadcast one day a day from August 1 to 4 of the same year. In addition, a total of six episodes were broadcast one day a day from August 14 to 19 of the same year. "Pacusi" is a story of Pacusi and his family. Little happenings in ordinary days are described. We can enjoy the warmhearted and a big strange Pacusi's world. Song of Pacusi, Bridge Animation, episode 1: The Pacusi family", episode 2: A Bottle, episode 3: A Picture Book", episode 4: Brushing teeth, episode 5: Peek-a-Boo", episode 6: Water, episode 7: On the Way Home, episode 8: Chair, episode 9: Handkerchief, episode 10: Parade, episode 11: Dance, episode 12: Baltazar, episode 13: Sweet Buns, episode 14: Vehicles, episode 15: Fallen Leaves, 16 episode: Soft Ice Cream, episode 17: Organ, episode 18: Evolution
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1992    (C) Yamamura Animation |
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 | Produce: Yamamura Animation, NHK Direction, Animation, Script: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Studio Sound: NHK Music: Syzygys Voices: Karo: Takahashi Momota, Piyobpt: Shimizu Hitomi Broardcasted on NHK "Petti Clay" #01 A House One day in winter,two birds were flying to the snow field. They found a fine big tree and decided to build their house on it. Carrying logs,cutting them,putting together,finally a lovely house was completed. #02 The Sandwiches It was a wonderful day. At the kitchen,Karo and Piyobupt were making sandwiches.Yes,they were going on a picnic.When you eat sandwiches on the beautiful green field,how delicious they are and how much you eat them. #03 Imagination Karo was hurrying to his house on a rainy day.Then he met a fish swimming in the air.He talked about the fish to Piyobupt but Piyobupt laughed at Karo.So they started to imagine and imagine.And outside of the window,flying fishes were enjoying the rain. 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 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 Review: "Keep it in Motion - Classic Animation Revisited: the Karo and Piyobupt trilogy" （By Chris Robinson, January 5, 2017, AWM.com）>Site
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1990 |
DO-RE-MI | Music Video | 1990 | Japan | 3'00" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | English | Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Composition: Richard Rodgers Production: Kodansha-Book Channel, King records Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Broadcasted at Kodansha Book Channel |
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SONG OF NUMBERS | Music Video | 1990 | Japan | 1'53" | SD | 4:3d | Stereo | English | "Saudi no Uta" Lyrics: Yume Koji Composition: Koya Harime Production: Kodansha-Book Channel, King records Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Broadcasted at Kodansha Book Channel |
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| 1989 | Otsukai Ari-san | Music Video | 1989 | Japan | 2'00" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | "Otsukai Ari-san" Lyrics: Sekine Eiichi Composition: Dan Ikuma Production: Kodansha-Book Channel, King records Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Broadcasted at Kodansha Book Channel |
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Marching March | Music Video | 1989 | Japan | 2'51" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | "Marching March" Lyrics: Sakata Hiroo Composition: Hattori Koichi Production: Kodansha-Book Channel, King records Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Broadcasted at Kodansha Book Channel |
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| March of the Tooth | Music Video | 1989 | Japan | SD | Standard | Stereo | Japanese | Production: Little Studio Inc Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Broadcasted at Fuji TV "Hirake! Pon Ki-ki" in 1989 |
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Humpty Dumpty | Music Video | 1989 | Japan | 1:39 | 16mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Production: Little Studio Inc Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Broadcasted at Fuji TV "Hirake! Pon Ki-ki" in 1989 |
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2010   |
Little Bear in the Rain | Music Video | 2010 | Japan | 3'37" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese, English subtitles | Stills | ”Amefuri Kumanoko” Lyrics: Tsurumi Masao Composition: Yuyama Akira Music Producer: Sakamoto Ryuichi Song: Harada Tomoyo Arrangement: Suzuki Keiichi Production: ADK Arts (ADK Creative One) Direction, Design, Animation: Yamamura Koji English Translation: Chris Robinson “Rain falls in the mountain, Dancing on the ground Forming a small stream of water A mischievous bear runs by the stream. Silently he looks down at the water, And wonders if there is a fish…” This film was made as one of the “Nihon no Uta” (Songs of Japan) projects. The project aims to breathe new life into Japanese nursery songs and school songs, and pass them on to future generations.  DVD >Amazon.jp |
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1999    |
Nakamura Kazuyoshi "Jubilee" | Music Video | 1999 | Japan | 5'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Sketches | Storyboards | Stills | Lyrics, composition, song and play: Nakamura Kazuyoshi Direction, animation, art: Yamamura Koji Production: Kitty MME Music video for the single CD "Jubilee" by Kazuyoshi Nakamura. The first work painted with digital paint. Awards: Guilty Pleasures-Marc Glassman Prize: Holland Animation Film Festival MALE VIDEO: 4th Music Video Awards '99 Official selection: 7th World Animation Celebration 8th ANIMA MUNDI
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1992 |
Mashima Tosio "Go! Go! HedoroMan" | Music Video | 1992 | Japan | 3'34" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Lyrics, composition, song and play: Mashima Tosio Director: Itaya Hiroyuki Puppet animation: Boda Katsushi保田克史 Drawing animation: Yamamura Koji  VHS 2nd Rated |
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2019    |
WILDAID Hankograph | Advertising Movie for web | 2019.04 | Japan | 2'10" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanes | Animator, Director: Yamamura Koji, Yamamura Animation Creative Director: TAGAYA Masanori, GREY Art Director: TAKAI Gaku, GREY Associate Account Director: FUKUDA Meg, GREY Accounts Executive: OGURA Shinnosuke, GREY Director of Photography: UENO Senzo Producer: KINOSHITA Kentaro, TYO MONSTER DINER Campaign Producers: Yamawaki Airi, Mt.MELVIL, WILDAID, TEARS OF THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT Production Managers: KONNO Seiya, TYO MONSTER DINER Photographer: NISHIMURA Mitsuru Digital Designers: TAKAOKA Maria, Mt.MELVIL Captions Translations: TAYLOR Kennedy Music: Shimizu Hitomi Sound Design: Kasamatsu Koji HankographMaking of HankographAwards: Gold / Design / Craft / Animation: One Show 2020 Bronze / Digital Craft / Visual & Audio Craft Animation: One Show 2020 Merit / Online Film& Video / Long Form: One Show 2020 Merit / Online Film& Video / Sound Design: One Show 2020 Yellow Pencil: D&AD Awards 2020 Gold・Film Craft_Animation, Silver・Film Craft_Sound design, Bronze・Film Craft_Art direction_production design, Silver・Non Branded Videos: AD STARS 2019, Korea, 2019.08 Sliver Spikes: Spikes Asia 2019 Film Craft / Animation / Gold, Artistry & Craft in Advertising / Silver: Now York Festival 2020, US Offcial selection: SHORTLIST (Animaiton): D&AD Awards 2020 SHORTLIST (Film Technique category: Animation): 2019 CLIO awards Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2019.09 SHORTLIST: Spikes Asia 2019 21st Wiesbaden International Festival of Animation, Germany, 2019.10 |
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2017    |
JR East Japan Railway Company Group: Servis/Children's Future | Television advertisement | 2017 | US | 0'30", 0'30" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: JR East Japan Agency: JK Creative Production: Pyramid Film Director: Mkino Motohiko Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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JR East Japan Railway Company Group: Anzenheno Torikumi/Chiikito Tomoni | Television advertisement | 2017 | US | 0'30", 0'15" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Animation Client: JR East Japan Agency: JK Creative Production: Pyramid Film Director: Mkino Motohiko Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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2016   |
The Story of Numi Organic Tea | Advertising Movie for web | July 2016 | US | 3'43" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Numi Tea Production: Acme Filmworks Animation: Yamamura Koji Drawing 1 minute animation part. |
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2012 |
Daido Seimei: Kaze to Ame to Hikari to HD version | Television advertisement | 2012 | Japan | 0'30" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Daido Life Insurance Company Agency: Asahi Advertising Production: C3FILM Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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2010 |
Fu Fu Stew | Television advertisement | 2010 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: House Foods Corporation Agency: Denstu Production: Denstu Creative X Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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2009 |
Daido Seimei: Perspective | Television advertisement | 2009 | Japan | 0'30" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Daido Life Insurance Company Agency: Asahi Advertising Production: C3FILM Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Nakagawa Toshio |
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2008 |
Daido Seimei: Dear Presidents 2 | Television advertisement | 2008 | Japan | 0'30" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Daido Life Insurance Company Agency: Asahi Advertising Production: C3FILM Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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HABY | Television advertisement | 2008 | Japan | 0'07" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | No dialogue | Design, Animation, Director: Yamamura Koji Animator: Arai Chie A mascot for Hiroshima Animation Biennale |
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2007  |
Man & Whale | Advertising Movie | 2007 | Japan | 2'00" | 35mm, HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Greenpeace Japan Agency: Leo Burnett, beacon communications Production: Yamamura Animation Director, Design: Yamamura Koji Music: Shimizu Hitomi Sound Design: Kasamatsu Koji Awards: Silver "New Director"(Short Film): Asia Pacific Advertising Festival 2008 EARTH VISION Prize for Children's Film: EARTH VISION - The Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival Special Jury Award in TV Category : 5th China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival September |
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2006 |
Daido Seimei: Kaze to Ame to Hikari to | Television advertisement | 2006 | Japan | 0'30" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Daido Life Insurance Company Agency: Asahi Advertising Production: C3 Films Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Illustration for picture book: Yamamura Koji |
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2005 |
Daido Seimei: Dear Presidents | Television advertisement | 2005 | Japan | 0'30" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Daido Life Insurance Company Agency: Asahi Advertising Production: C3 Films Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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2004 |
C1000Takeda Vitamin White: Picture Book | Television advertisement | 2003 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Takeda Syokuhin Kougyo Agency: I&S BBDO Production: Onion Director: Tominaga Mai |
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2003 |
Eco cute: Nani Ni Tukauno? Co2 | Television advertisement | 2003 | Japan | 0'30" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Kansai Electric Power Agency: Hakohodo Production: Hakohodo Photo creative Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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JARO: Son Nano Ari? Sans | Television advertisement | 2003 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: JARO Agency: ADK Production: ADK Arts Director: Ishii Eiji Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Polaroid One: Dachshund Roid/Barber | Television advertisement | 2003 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | English | Client: Polaroid Japan Agency: beacon communications Director: Ueda Taku Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Grandeco 2003: Snow Man Family | Television advertisement | 2002 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Ura-Bandai Kogen Tokyu Resort Production: Yamamura Animation Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji  DVD NAAシリーズ山村浩二作品集 >Amazon.jp |
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Repure: Futaride Asa-Gaeri/Shibasaki Arawaru | Television advertisement | 2002 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Suntory Agency: Hakuhodo Production: Sasso Films Director: Kuroda Yasutsugu Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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2001 |
Grandeco 2002 | Television advertisement | 2001 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Ura-Bandai Kogen Tokyu Resort Production: Yamamura Animation Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows | Television program trailer | 2001 | Japan | 0'30" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Director: Inudo Isshin Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Allergeell | Television advertisement | 2000 | Japan | 0'15" | D2 | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Sankyo Director: Sakonji Yuichi Song: Takada Wataru Character Design, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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anan 30th / POPEYE | Advertising Movie | 2000 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | English | Client: Magazine House Producer, Director: Naito Takaoki Animation: Yamamura Koji DVD NAA Koji Yamamura >Amazon.jp |
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Moody Kayoukyo | Advertising Movie | 2000 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Shikoku Electric Security Clay Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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| Japonika notebooks: Japonika Janken | Television advertisement | 2000 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Showa Note Agency: ADK planning: Yamamura Koji |
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IDO cdmaOne2: Balloon | Television advertisement | 2000 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: IDO Line Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Showa New Semester Ninja: Password | Television advertisement | 2000 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Showa Note Production: Asahi Promotion Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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1999 |
Kuromaru: Pool | Television advertisement | 1999 | Japan | 0'30" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Client: Takarajima Co. Directors: Terai Hironori, Yamamura Koji Animation: Yamamura Koji Award: Silver: Asia Pacific Advertising Festival, 1999 DVD NAA Koji Yamamura >Amazon.jp |
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Origami: tongue twister | Television advertisement | 1999 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Showa Grim Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Pita Cool: MOAI Statues | Television advertisement | 1999 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Showa Note Production: Asahi Promotion Director: Mogi Naoya Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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1998 |
Next with You | Television advertisement | 1998 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Shonai Bank Producer: Sawa Shigeki Production: Dentsu Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Image strategy CM for Shonai Bank |
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1997   |
Chibita no Oden to Iyami no Okonomi-Yaki / Iyami no Okonomiyaki / Chibita no Oden | Television advertisement | 1997 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Circle-K Production: Paradise Cafe Director: Nariki Jun Character Design: Akatsuka Fujio Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Our promise | Television advertisement | 1997 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Shonai Bank Producer: Sawa Shigeki Production: Dentsu Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Image strategy CM for Shonai Bank DVD NAA Koji Yamamura >Amazon.jp |
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Yonayona Yale: Transformation x 5 episodes | Television advertisement | November 1997 | Japan | 0'15" x 5 episode | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Yoo-hoo Brewing Campany Production: Paradise Cafe Director: Nariki Jun Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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NishinSeifun Power Ribron: Nandaka Naa: Father/ Nandaka Naa: Mother | Television advertisement | November 1997 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Nishin Seifun Producrio: Paradice Cafe Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Attakine/Naruhodone/Manatsu Image strategy CM for Fuji Electric | Television advertisement | 1997 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Fuji Electric Director: Nariki Jun Clay Animation: Yamamura Koji Image strategy CM for Fuji Electric |
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| 1994 | Deruppa | Television advertisement | 1994 | Japan | 0'15" | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Akitaken Fermentation Production: Asahi Promotion (ADK Creative One) Director: Inudo Isshin Visual Design: Yamamura Koji |
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| TeBuRa Cordrusu | Television advertisement | 1994 | Japan | 0'15" | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Sanyo Director: Sekiguchi Kikuhide 3D Objects design and creation: Yamamura Koji |
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| 1993 | National-Palookboll | Television advertisement | 1993 | Japan | 0'15" | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: National Direction for line Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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Hanabi-kun-no Oshirase | Television advertisement | 1993 | Japan | 0'15" | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Circle-K Production: Paradise Cafe Director: Yokoi Mari Animation: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Nobuyuki |
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1990  |
Kuru Kuru Action World | Television advertisement | 1992 | Japan | 0'15", 0'30" | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Akitaken Fermentation Production: Asahi Promotion (ADK Creative One) Director: Inudo Isshin Animation: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Nobuyuki |
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Soft Sinko: Tanuki-no Okaeshi | Television advertisement | 1990 | Japan | 0'15" | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Akitaken Fermentation Production: Asahi Promotion (ADK Creative One) Director: Inudo Isshin Animation: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Nobuyuki |
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| 1990 | Komatsu Fork Auto Depo | Television advertisement | 1990 | Japan | 0'15" | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Japanese | Client: Komatsu Fork Production: Asahi Promotion (ADK Creative One) Director: Inudo Isshin Animation: Yamamura Koji Camera: Akiyoshi Nobuyuki |
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1985 |
Vision See Tactory VP | Advertising Movies | 1985 | Japan | 1'55" | 16mm | 16:9 | Stereo | No Dialogue | Client: Torii Printings Direction: Hiruma Yukio Production: Asahi Tsusinsya Animation, Camera: Yamamura Koji Animation part of openning title |
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2021  |
Michael Fukushima Flipbook | Flipbook, Trailer | November 2021 | Canada | 27" | HD | Gift flipbook for retired NFB executive producer, Michael Fukushima and the trailer of Michael Fukushima AnimAsian Award of Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival >Michael Fukushima Flipbook site Producer: Lillian Chan Music: Tim Shia Sound design: John Poon Special thanks to Maral Mohammadian and Jelena Popovic Animators: Munro Ferguson, Shira Avni, Marcy Page, Diane Obomsawin, John F.Weldon, Torill Kove, Jo Meuris, Lillian Chan, Jonathan Ng, Janet Perlman, Lizzy Hobbs, Jason Lee, Howie Shia, Anne Koizumi, James Braithwaite, Ann Marie Fleming, Brandon Blommaert, Fred Casia, Neely Goniodsky, Sara Guindon, Elise Simard, Candace Couse, Andrew Hicks, Zane Kozak, Aimée van Drimmelen, Yamamura Koji, Randall Okita, Su-An Ng, Frances Adair Mckenzie, Esteban Azuela, Asinnajaq, Eoin Duffy, Joanna Quinn, Alison Snowden, Duncan Major, Chintis Lundgren, Marta Pajek |
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2017   Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art National Film Archive of Japan ©2018 |
Archive of Lights | Trailer for archive films | September 2017 | Japan | 0'10" | 16mm, 35mm, HD, 4K, DCP | Standard, Vista, Cinemascope | Silent | Stills | Production: Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art National Film Archive of Japan Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Logo design: Hitoshi Suzuki The NFAJ logo animation was born from the NFAJ logo, which the designer Hitoshi Suzuki created combining images of screen and light. Inspired by this logo, the animator-director Yamamura drew various images with black drawing pens, captured them into the PC, and inverted black and white to express lights. This animation is put on the starting of every films that will be archived from April 2018. |
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2016 |
Au Praxinoscope ID | Trailer for archive films | 2016 | Japan | 0'06" | HD, 4K, DCP| 16:9, Standard, Vista, Cinemascope | Silent | Director, Animation. Logo design: Yamamura Koji Music, Piano: Ueno Koji |
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2012 |
TAKESHI Art Beat | Opening movie for TV program | 2012 | Japan | 0'26" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | English | Production: East Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Broadcasted at NHK World from April 2012 NHK World "TAKESHI Art Beat" opening title. |
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Prekiso Eigo | Opening movie for TV program | 2011 | Japan | 0’30” | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | English | Production: NHK Educatinal Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Art direction Character Design, Animation, Opening title direction: Yamamura Koji "Prekiso Eigo" is an English Educational program on NHK
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2010 |
Animations Festival 10/Animations Festival encore | Opening movie for cinema | 2010/2011 | Japan | 0'10" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | English | Illustration: Priit Pärn Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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2008 |
Animations creator & critics | Trailer for web site | 2008 | Japan | 0'10" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Director, Animation. Logo design: Yamamura Koji |
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Anima Mudi 2008 | Trailer for Animation Festival | 2008 | Brazil | 0'33" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Music: Hitomi Shimizu Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Shimizu Hitomi |
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2005 |
Into Animation 4 | Trailer for Animation screening event | 2005 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji
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2004 |
Nose | Trailer for Animation Festival | 2004 | Korea | 1'00" | HD | 16:9 | Stereo | Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Trailerfor SICAFSeoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival 2004
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2003    |
Dish/Conversation/Lid/Eating with Waiter's Fingers | TV Station ID | 2001 | Japan | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Dish (0'05")/Conversation (0'10")/Lid (0'10")/Eating with Waiter's Fingers (0'10") Production: Foodies TV Station, PICS Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Kitazato Reiji |
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2002 |
CINEMA GRAND | TV program opening title/Ending Title | 2001 | Japan | 0'15", 0'05" | SD | Standard | Stereo | No dialogue | Production: BS-i Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Drawings on paper, 2DCG |
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Yamamura Animation ID | Trailer for archive films | 2002 | Japan | 0'07" | SD, HD, 4K, DCP | 4:3, 16:9, Standard, Vista, Cinemascope | Silent | Director, Animation. Logo design: Yamamura Koji |
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2001  |
WE LOVE MUSIC: Head phon/Meal | TV Channel station ID | 2001 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | Standard | Stereo | No dialogue | Space Shower TV Station Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Production: Drawings on paper, 2DCG Award: Silver: ROMAX&BDA2002 DVD NAA Koji Yamamura >Amazon.jp |
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SMILE | TV Channel station ID | 2001 | Japan | 0'15", 0"05 | SD | Standard | Stereo | English | Production: Viewsic TV Music: Beach Boys Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji opening title for TV program, “SMILE” of Viewsic TV station |
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1999    |
Madog: Bone/Fish/Guitar/Fleas | TV Channel station ID | 1999 | Japan | 0'26" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Sketch | Stills | Bone(0'22")/Fish(0'15")/Guitar(0'26")/Fleas(0'15") Production: Music Channel(Vibe, PICS) Producer: Terai Hironori Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Official selection: ANNECY '00 Holland Animation Film Festival |
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Suitman: Air/Wens/Outlet | TV Channel station ID | 1999 | Japan | 0'15" | SD | Standard | Stereo | No dialogue | Sketch | Stills | Air(0'17")/Wens(0'26")/Outlet(0'23") Production: Music Channel(Vibe, PICS) Producer: Terai Hironori Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Award: Guilty Pleasures - Mikhail Aldashin prize: Holland Animation Film Festival Official selection: Holland Animation Film Festival DVD NAA Koji Yamamura >Amazon.jp |
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Mtv Japan ID: REMtv "CARP" | TV Channel station ID | 1999 | Japan | 0'42" | SD | Standard | Stereo | No dialogue | | Stills | Production: Music Channel(PICS) Producer: Terai Hironori Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Narration: Kitazato Reiji |
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1998  (C) P.I.C.S |
Mr. Rib Globe | Short animation | 1998 | Japan | 1'39" | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Sketch | Production: Music Channel(VibeE、PICS) Producer: Terai Hironori Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji Sound: Kitazato Reiji, Kasamatsu Koji Edit : M.Kanaya Mysterious old people in conference. They point at a terrestrial globe which has a skeletal structure inside. Mr. Rib Globe lives in the globe. He runs and runs with a rib bone in his bosom, and wanders deep into an urban maze. Water fleas born from the rib bone are floating in the dark air. Desperately seeking for an exit, where is Mr. Rib Globe finally going? |
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Yomigaere Satoyama | Opeing and Ending titile for documentary | 1998 | 12sec. | japane | SD | 4:3 |Stereo | No dialogue | Animation: Yamamura Koji Director: Kamanaka Hitomi VHS: Yomigaere Satoyama |
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1994 |
Kingdom of Midnight | Opening title for TV program | 1994 | Japan | 0:45 | 35mm, SD, HD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | (NHK-BS TV Program Opening Title, Ending Title & Logo design 1994) Direction, Animation, Logo Design: Yamamura Koji Music: The Residents "Easter Woman" (Commercial Album) TV program opening & ending title of NHK-BS "Midnight Kingdom". The asteroid and the king of the fictional kingdom fascinated by the asteroid that can see all the space from the source of Borges's short novel, “Aleph”. |
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1992 |
Petti Clay | Opening title for TV program | 1992 | Japan | 2:00 | 35mm, SD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Direction: Yamamura Koji Animator: Ishida Takuya, Yamamura Koji Music: Takashi Sudo On Air at NHK "Petti Clay" from 1993. |
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| 1991 | Sekai Meiganotabi | Opening title movie for TV program | 1991 | Japan | SD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Production: Meisun Direction, Animation, Logo design: Yamamura Koji |
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| 1990 | Douga wo Egaitemiyou | Opening title for Video package | 1990 | Japan| SD | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Production: Kodansha Larning Director, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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1988 |
Sonoda Video Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter | Opening title movie for Video package | 1988 | Japan | 1'29" | 16mm, SD, H | 4:3 | Stereo | No dialogue | Producer: Hamaguchi Fumiyuki Director, Camera, Animation: Yamamura Koji |
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2021 ©2021"SIETE VOI QUI, SER BRUNETTO?" Yano Honami |
Supervision for short animations: DANTE AND THE ANIMATION CINEMA 700th Anniversary Project after Dante's Death Italy-Japan Collaboration Short Animation "VITA NUOVA" Kim Yewon, "NELLA FORMA DEL QUINTO" Luo Sijia, "MORE, MORE" Huang Wenrui, "CHECKER CHECKER (DANTE)” Shibuta Naoaki, "IL NOSTRO DUE" Song Yungsung, "DALL'ACQUA MERAVIGLIOSA" Murata Caori, "AMORE" Duanmu Junqing, "SIETE VOI QUI, SER BRUNETTO?" Yano Honami Premiere: Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, 2021.10.30, Ravenna, Italy, Site |
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 ©2021 Honami Yano/ Au Praxinoscope |
Produced short animation A Bite of Bone | Short animation | March 2021 | Japan | 10'00" | 4K, HD | 16:9 | 5.1ch Stereo | Japanese | English subtitles | Trailer | Directed by Honami Yano >Site Voice: Ayamo Tano Superviser, Producer: Koji Yamamura Assistant Producer: sanae Sound Design: Masumi Takino Production, Distribution: Au Praxinoscope Awards
Grand Prize for Short Animation: 45th Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2021.10
Best of TAIS Showcase award: 15th TAIS Animation Showcase 2021, Canada, 2021.10 Best Animation Short: 29th Raindance Film Festival, UK, 2021.10 General Category Grand Prize: 7th 4K･VR Tokushima Movie Festival 2021, Japan, 2021.11 Grand Prize: 23rd DigiCon6 ASIA, Japan, 2021.1１ Japan Gold: 23rd DigiCon6 ASIA, Japan, 2021.10 Excellent Film Awards (Semi-Grand Prix): JAAP International Short Film Festival, Japan, 2021.11 3rd ΑΝΙΜΑΤΙΟΝ MARATHON AWARD: 6th Animation Marathon, Greece, 2021.11 Jimury's Special Award for Short Films: 8th New Chitose Airport International Anation Festival, Japan, 2021.11 Hokkaido Bank Award: 8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan, 2021.11 Audience Choice 'Star of Festival': 17th Korean Independent Animation Film Festival Indie-AniFest2021, Korea, 2021.09 Special Mention: 9th Prime The Animation! New Talent International Festival, Spain, 2021.10 Jury Award: SPECIAL MENTION: 17th GIRAF International Festival of Independent Animation, Canada, 2021.11 Juror Citation - Siqi Song: 9th Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, US, 2021.11 Special Jury Mention: 15th Big Cartoon Festival, Russian, Moscow, 2021.12 Official selection
25th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, US, 2021.08
8th Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival Ukraine, Ukraine, 2021.09 17th Korean Independent Animation Film Festival Indie-AniFest2021, Korea, 2021.09 5th Chaniartoon 2021 - International Comic & Animation Festival, Greece, 2021.09 45th Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2021.10 16th ANIMATOU International Animation Film Festival Genève, Switzerland, 2021.10 10th New York Shorts International Film Festival, US, 2021.10 15th Animest International Animation Film Festival, Romania, Bucharest, 2020.10 9th Ireland, Cork, Ireland, 2020.10 23rd DigiCon6 ASIA, Japan, 2021.10 21st Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan, 2021.10 15th TAIS Animation Showcase 2021, Canada, 2021.10 4th ANIMAFILM International Animation Festival, Azerbaijan, 2021.10 11th Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taiwan, 2021.10 18th London International Animation Festival, UK, 2021.10 29th Raindance Film Festival, UK, 2021.10 15th Big Cartoon Festival, Russian, Moscow, 2021.10 4th TIAF - Tbilisi International Animation Festival, Georgia, 2021.11 8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan, 2021.11 38th Chicago International Children's Film Festival, US, 2021.11 25th International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur), Switzerland, 2021.11 25th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Canada, 2021.11 9th Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, US, 2021.11 7th 4K･VR Tokushima Movie Festival 2021, Japan, 2021.11 28th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2021.11 17th GIRAF International Festival of Independent Animation, Canada, 2021.11 14th Piccolo Festival Animazione, Italy, 2021.11 10th Tindirindis International Animation Film, Lithuania, 2021.11 18th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2021.11 3rd Feinaki Beijing Animation Week 2021, China, 2021.12 12th Los Angeles Animation Festival, US, 2021.12 19th Bogotá Short Film Festival, Colombia, 2021.12 21st Future Film Festival, Italy, 2021.12 |
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2021-2008 ©2010 Atsushi Wada / Tokyo University of the Arts  ©2011 Ryo Orikasa / Tokyo University of the Arts  ©2014 ZHU Yantong / Tokyo University of the Arts |
Teaching at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Film and New Media Animation Department
2D Animation workshopr Animation Circus 2008-2020
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| 2017 | Animation Workshop "Rhythm of the Body" Yokohama Museum of Art Citizen's Atelier Room, February 5, 2017 Organizer: Yokohama Museum of Art Lecturer: Yamamura Koji Cooperation: Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media Animation Workshop "Rhythm of the Body" |
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| European Institute of Japanese Studies Koji Yamamura 5 days lecture and workshop France, Alsace, Kaysersberg, Centre Européen d'Etudes Japonaises d'Alsace - CEEJA, 11.27-12.01, Site |
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2017  |
A.Vivaldi "The Four Seasons" | Music Video | November 2017 | Japan | Around 45'00" | HD | 16:9 | No dialogue | Production: Tokyo University of the Arts Planning: Sawa Kazuki Producer: Okamoto Mitsuko Supervisor of Animation: Yamamura Koji Animation: Anna Budanova, Priit and Olga Pärn, Wada Astushi and Theodore Ushev In commemoration of the 130th anniversary of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017, A. Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" will be animated and performed using AI to keep the timing of the animation in sync with live performance. 2017.11.19 Premiure Kita-kyusyu Hibikin Hall, aiolin: Kazuki Sawa, Hibiki Strings 2018 Animac, Spain 2018 Monstra Lisbonn International Animation Festival, Portgal 2018.10.08 Performed by Covent Garden Soloists Orchestra from London in Vene Teater (Russian Theatre) in Tallinn, Estonia 2019.01 Aratani Theatre inLA, US National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria Castle of Annecy, France |
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| 2016 | Animation Circus Workshop The 12th China International Animation Festival International Chinese Academy of Fine Arts 29 August 29-30, 2016 Lecturer: Yamamura Koji |
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2015  |
My title 01@La Poudriere 2015.03.17 - 20 4 days workshop at La Poudriere in Balance, France. Students selects one Music from own music player. They use that "Title" for this short animation. They also have to use the sound effects that were selected at random from sound library.
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| 2014 | "Animatou" workshop - Animation Circus 04 2014.10.06 - 10 Geneva University of Art and Design(HEAD)、スイス ”Animatou 2015” Trailer for Animatou 2015
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2013 |
Cadavre exquis animé [Carrefour du cinéma d'animation 2013] (5 min.) HD / 2013/France./color Direction, Animation: 70 French Students Forum des images >Site >Movie |
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| 2012 | Expo 2012 Yeosu (Korea) Japan Pavilion | Exhibition movie | 2012 | Japan | supervision of exhibition movie: Yamamura Koji |
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2010 (c) 2010 Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art |
Taketori Monogatari | Music Video | 2010 | Japan | 1'43" | 35mm, HD, DCP | Cinemascope | No dialogue | Original script, animation: Ofuji Noburo Superviser: Koji Yamamura, Copy right: Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art, Production: Yamamura Animation, restoration and assistant: Sanae Yamamura, Atsushi Wada, Ryo okawara, provide the materials from The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, technique corpration: IMAGICA, researcher: Tsugata Nobuyuki, Tomoya Kimura |
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2001 |
In my life | Music Video | 2001 | Japan | 0'24" | HD | 16:9 | English | Animation: Yamamura Koji Video for Keisuke Kuwata 2001AAA (The Beatles) Live Concert. |
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| 1999 | Yuyam-dori Tankentai | Music Video | 1999 | Japan | Around 45'00" | HD | 16:9 | No dialogue | Game for Play Station Production: Spike Videos and finishes of some characters: Yamamura Koji |
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1998 |
THE WING | Short film | 1998 | Japan | SD | 4:3 | Japanese | Director: Kobayashi Hajime Animation: Yamamura Koji Animation part of live-action short film. |
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Eddy is Frog | Interactive Movie | 1998 | Japan | SD | 4:3 | Japanese | Production: So-net Production, Direction, Animation: Yamamura Koji Music: Shimizu Hitomi Flash interactive movie for So-net "The Story Gate" |
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1995  |
Miru, Shiru, Tsukuru, Animation Kit | VHS. DVD, booklet, work collection | 1995 | Japan | SD | 4:3 | Japanese | Production, editing, animation: Koji Yamamura Publisher: Children's Castle AV Division MIRU KIT (VHS, DVD): An original animation and a making video that introduces how to make an animation in a fun way. Shiru Kit (booklet, 4-color printing, 32 pages): A "monitoring reader" that explains the process of creating an animation by mixing illustrations and photographs of the production scenery. Also features interviews with animation artists and the history of various video devices. Supervision: The Imaging Society of Japan Crafting kit (work collection): A collection of old-fashioned video toy craft patterns that move in a simple way. With detailed commentary. |
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| Ultraman Kids | Education Software | 1995 | Japan | Animation: Tsuburaya Pro Director: Yamamura Koji Education software for SEGA "Pico" |
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1990 |
Pioneer 5 minutes Theater | Exhibition Video | 1990 | Japan | 5'00" | HD | 16: 9 | Production: Asahi Promotion Producer: Sato Hiraku Animation: Yamamura Koji Animated part of Hi-Vision exhibition video, combined with live action. |
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Doshitearunokana Chosakuken (Why? Copyright) | Animations inserted into documentaries | 1990 | Japan | 16mm, SD | 4: 3 | Cast, animation: Koji Yamamura Director: Hitomi Kamanaka VHS "Doshitearunokana Chosakuken" |
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| 1989 | Nezumi | Theatrical stage footage | 1989 | Japan | 16mm | 4:3 | Animation: Koji Yamamura Animation projected on stage and costume during the Ishin-ha's "echo" play |
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