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Koji Yamamura
Films
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Aquatic
Watercolor animation and a vivid sound design make the liquid theme of this early Koji Yamamura short a tangible fact. Transformation is the one constant of AQUATIC: one fish multiplies into many and the orientation of the frame is thrown off balance by deceptive reflections. Yamamura plunges into something gorgeous with...Start your free trial to watch
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Perspektivenbox
Subtitled THE RESEARCHER’S SEARCH, Koji Yamamura’s short imagines an anthropologist roaming a crowded city to catalog its artifacts. Uniform salarymen, floating commodities and omnipresent barcodes clogs the weightless frame. Yamamura’s multi-plane cel animation suggests an aquarium on land, a pointedly cockeyed vision of...Start your free trial to watch
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Japanese-English Pictionary
Quite possibly the best game of Pictionary ever played. Animator Koji Yamamura’s organizing principle is simple: the last letter of one word supplies the first of the next, from “Retake” to “Evolution” to “Nuclear War” to “Rainy.” The linguistic associations become increasingly freewheeling as the...Start your free trial to watch
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Imagination
Karo comes inside from a rainy day to tell Piyobupt about seeing fish swimming in the air. Piyobupt laughs at his friend’s delusion but his own imagination starts working. There’s no such thing as an ordinary thought bubble in Koji Yamamura’s inventive claymation.Start your free trial to watch
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Kipling Jr.
Like a Yasujuro Ozu film fashioned out of clay, KIPLING JR. relates a young pup’s coming of age with gentle regard for a child’s intimate experience of time and space. Kip Kipling lives with his parents in a little house near a railway line. Outside his window, a wily circus band toots out melodies. Animator Koji Yamamura...Start your free trial to watch
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Bavel's Book
The imaginative possibilities of animation and reading are intertwined in this spirited Koji Yamamura short. Two kids find a dusty book on a park bench and soon become immersed in a "Robinson Crusoe"-like adventure. They’re in for a jolt, however, when their desert island starts swimming. Yamamura’s painted frames swell with...Start your free trial to watch
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Your Choice!
Koji Yamamura is often praised for capturing a childlike sense of wonder in his animated films. YOUR CHOICE! actually benefits from the input of a handful of “junior director” collaborators in Japan and Chicago. The theme is indecisiveness but hand the reigns over to kids and a T-Rex is sure to show up sooner or later....Start your free trial to watch
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Mt. Head
Koji Yamamura’s Oscar-nominated animated short reworks a surreal Rakugo comic monologue concerning a miserly old-timer. Unable to abide waste, he eats the pit of a cherry earlier saved from the trash. In a peculiar turn, the seed begins sprouting out of his head. Hordes of miniature office workers arrive for picnics under the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Old Crocodile
“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 grandson.” So begins Koji Yamamura’s beautifully inked adaptation of Leopold Chaveau’s HISTOIRE DU VIEUX...Start your free trial to watch
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A Country Doctor
Winner of several festival prizes for animation, Koji Yamamura’s adaptation of the Franz Kafka story is a glowing vision of dread. A crude groom mysteriously appears with horses when a country doctor is called on emergency. The stranger ushers the old man into the night, staying behind with the maid. The...Start your free trial to watch
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A Child's Metaphysics
The animation may be simple but A CHILD’S METAPHYSICS nonetheless contemplates complex concepts like language acquisition and acculturation. In less than five minutes, Koji Yamamura strikes upon several memorable images of education, some hopeful and others not. Children’s heads are spread flat like maps,...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animation / Claymation
- Animation / Claymation
- Animation / Claymation
- Animation / Claymation
- Drama / Coming of Age
- Animation / Cut-Out
- Drama / Expedition
- Fantasy / Fairy Tale
- Fantasy / Fairy Tale
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- Family
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- International / Asian / Japanese
- Drama / Melodrama
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
- Drama / Portmanteau
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Animation / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
Recent Reviews
A Child's Metaphysics
surreal - I will watch it again to look for the continuity , very cool animation
A Child's Metaphysics
Kids ponder the darndest things!
Pieces
Love the playful spirit on display in this series of nine short animated clips. Light on narrative, big on imagination.
Aquatic
The animation talent is impressive. The movement is beutiful. Not terribly substantial, but worth a look.