From Yamamura Animation Studios
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2007
Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor
Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor6.80 2007 HD
A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as...
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2002
Mount Head
Mount Head6.40 2002 HD
A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head. He cuts it off; it grows...
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2011
Muybridge's Strings
Muybridge's Strings6.00 2011 HD
Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.
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2016
Satie's "Parade"
Satie's "Parade"6.20 2016 HD
A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie,...
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2013
Five Fire Fish
Five Fire Fish1 2013 HD
Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.
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2016
Zodiac One Third
Zodiac One Third7.00 2016 HD
This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from...
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2005
The Old Crocodile
The Old Crocodile6.40 2005 HD
An short movie that is illustrated in black and white using rather simple animation. The story is told by a narrator with a lovely British voice that...
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2024
Extremely Short
Extremely Short8.00 2024 HD
Somewhere between calligraphy, embryology and words from beyond the grave, a convulsive poem wraps itself around the Japanese syllable...
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2021
Polar Bear Bears Boredom
Polar Bear Bears Boredom7.00 2021 HD
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...
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1993
Karo and Piyobupt: A House
Karo and Piyobupt: A House5.33 1993 HD
The first short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura
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1985
Serenade
Serenade8.00 1985 HD
One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...
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2021
Dozens of Norths
Dozens of Norths2.70 2021 HD
Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn't capture the essence at all.
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1995
Kid's Castle
Kid's Castle5.50 1995 HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
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2017
Notes on Monstropedia
Notes on Monstropedia1 2017 HD
An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.
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2003
Pieces
Pieces5.67 2003 HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
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2007
Man & Whale
Man & Whale7.00 2007 HD
A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the...
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1990
Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-
Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-5.25 1990 HD
Short by Koji Yamamura
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2007
A Child's Metaphysics
A Child's Metaphysics6.80 2007 HD
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...
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1985
Natural History
Natural History7.00 1985 HD
An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.
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1995
Kipling Jr.
Kipling Jr.5.00 1995 HD
Short by Koji Yamamura