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| Archive of YAMAMURA Koji's Works Yamamura Animation are producing YAMAMURA Koji's Archive website since 2020. It is suported by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Goverment of Japan, Media Archive project. A Material photographs are published mainly focusing on the original works of animation artist Koji Yamamura. Currently around 3,200 images can be viewed. >Archive of YAMAMURA Koji's Works          |
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| New Animation short & Picture book Dreams into Drawing Japanese title: Yumeminoe Short animation / 23rd August 2019 / 10min 10sec / Japan / 5.1ch, Stereo / Vista / 4K / Dialogue: English, Japanese Synopsis 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... World Premiere at Friends & Neighbors: Japan program in 29th February 2020. 3rd New York International Children's Film Festival, US, New York, 2020.02.21-03.15, Site Picture Book: Monthly Kodomo no Tomo February 2021 issue Dreams into Drawing Text & Illustration: Koji Yamamura Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers 2021.02.01 Official Site: www.yamamura-animation.jp/yumeminoe.html |
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| New Feature Animation project Dozens and Dozens of Norths co-production with MIYU in France Koji Yamamura have drawn the cover illustration with brief text for the monthly literature magazine "Bungaku kai" from April 2012 to December 2014. Those cover images were concept to make an unseen animation movie. He is start to realize it as a new animation DA ozen Norths that is based on "Bungaku kai" cover images and text. Running time will be 63 minutes. This movie's music by Dutch indie jazz musician Willem Breuker. Synopsis: North is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in the North. 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 perception changes shape little by little. |
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