From Yamamura Animation Studios


  • 2007
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    Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

    Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

    6.80 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
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    Mount Head

    Mount Head

    6.40 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
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    Muybridge's Strings

    Muybridge's Strings

    6.00 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
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    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
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    Five Fire Fish

    Five Fire Fish

    1 2013 HD

    Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

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  • 2016
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    Zodiac One Third

    Zodiac One Third

    7.00 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
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    The Old Crocodile

    The Old Crocodile

    6.40 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
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    Extremely Short

    Extremely Short

    8.00 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
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    Polar Bear Bears Boredom

    Polar Bear Bears Boredom

    7.00 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
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    Karo and Piyobupt: A House

    Karo and Piyobupt: A House

    5.33 1993 HD

    The first short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

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  • 1985
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    Serenade

    Serenade

    8.00 1985 HD

    One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

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  • 2021
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    Dozens of Norths

    Dozens of Norths

    2.70 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
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    Kid's Castle

    Kid's Castle

    5.50 1995 HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura

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  • 2017
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    Notes on Monstropedia

    Notes on Monstropedia

    1 2017 HD

    An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

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  • 2003
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    Pieces

    Pieces

    5.67 2003 HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura

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  • 2007
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    Man & Whale

    Man & Whale

    7.00 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
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    Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-

    Perspektivenbox -Researcher's Search-

    5.25 1990 HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura

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  • 2007
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    A Child's Metaphysics

    A Child's Metaphysics

    6.80 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
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    Natural History

    Natural History

    7.00 1985 HD

    An animated short film by Yamamura Kouji.

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  • 1995
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    Kipling Jr.

    Kipling Jr.

    5.00 1995 HD

    Short by Koji Yamamura

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