
Koji Yamamura
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 4, 1964
- Birthplace
- Nagoya, Japan
Koji Yamamura is a Japanese independent animator who, after leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model sheets and background art for and sometimes produces his own short films and has worked on many commissions such as music videos, television advertisements, title sequences and station idents, both on his own and under or with other directors. He is also a regular illustrator of children's literature and textbooks.
Filmography

The Spring Sea TBA
Director

Hand-Drawn: Documentary TBA
as Self

Haru no Umi 2026
Director, Music, Writer

Eri, The Cow 2026
Supervising Producer

REST 2025
Producer
- OCTOPOLIS - Prologue -
OCTOPOLIS - Prologue - 2025
Producer

Extremely Short 2024
Director, Producer

My Inner Ear Quartet 2023
Director
- Joy of Life
Joy of Life 2023
Producer

Alien Human 2023
Producer

LOVE★STAR 2023
Producer

Dozens of Norths 2023
Editor, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Animation, Visual Effects, Creator

Methodology of Opening Jars 2023
Producer

BLUE 2023
Producer

To the Moon and Back 2023
Producer

In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket 2022
Producer

The House of Loss 2022
Producer

919 2022
Producer

Poo Down Hill Up 2022
Producer

Winter Star 2022
Producer

Before Dawn 2022
Producer

Stained Smell 2022
Producer

Me and Me 2022
Producer

Chinatown, Whereabouts Unknown 2022
Producer

The Ant Tower 2022
Producer

A Bite of Bone 2021
Producer

Round Trip 2021
Producer

Are you here, Ser Brunetto? 2021
Production Supervisor

Our 2 2021
Producer

Polar Bear Bears Boredom 2021
Director, Writer, Digital Producer, Animation, Painter, Producer

Our Little Pond 2021
Producer

Brother 2021
Producer

POP JUNKIE 2021
Producer

Dear Viruses 2021
Producer

MUNCH MUNCH 2021
Producer

Amane Diary 2021
Producer

blink 2021
Producer

Coping Mechanism 2021
Producer

Red 2021
Producer

Conflicted 2021
Producer

So I Picked Up the Worm 2021
Producer

The Mouse and a Prism 2021
Producer

Squishy Fish Eggs 2021
Producer

Strawberry Candy 2020
Producer

Empty Hands 2020
Producer

My Hand, Her Hand 2020
Producer

I Am a Motif 2020
Producer

The Big Tree in Front of the House 2020
Producer

Notre maison 2020
Producer

Long Live the Cat 2020
Producer

Strangers in the Alley 2020
Producer

Iron Pulse 2020
Producer

WOKE 2020
Producer

Representation of Light 2020
Producer

A DOG 2020
Producer

WildAid 'Hankograph' 2019
Director

Dreams into Drawing 2019
Director

Keep Forgetting 2019
Producer

Where is my home? 2019
Producer

Bath House of Whales 2019
Executive Producer

Behind Us 2019
Producer

Summer Sky Reverie 2019
Producer

Boozy Woozy Wonderland 2019
Producer

Flow of Life 2019
Producer

That summer there were two of us 2019
Producer

Hear the Snow Melt 2019
Producer

A Pawn 2019
Producer

The On-hold Music of Terror 2019
Producer

Stay With Me 2019
Producer

What's that smell? 2019
Producer

Pickle Plum Parade 2019
Producer

Dissipate 2019
Producer

The Death Vendor 2019
Producer

See My World 2019
Producer

Indoor Days 2019
Producer

Psyche 2019
Producer

House Rattler 2019
Producer

Pupa 2019
Producer

The Body in the Mind 2019
Producer

In There 2018
Producer

Namahage's Obon Homecoming 2018
Producer

Lion Nanny's Journey 2018
Producer

On the way home 2018
Producer

Bero Bero 2018
Producer

Take Me Home 2018
Producer

Gals 2018
Producer

Typhoon No. 14 2018
Producer

The Body Swap Center 2018
Producer

My Little Goat 2018
Producer

The Pearl Remains 2018
Producer

To day plus one 2018
Producer

Jinxes 2018
Producer

7 falls, 8 comebacks, 7 sports 2018
Producer

Dance to Life 2018
Producer

A4 Microcosm 2018
Producer

SIBLINGS 2018
Producer

Angel inside a box 2018
Producer

Shiosai-bound 2018
Producer

Fluffiction 2018
Producer

Live or Let Live 2018
Producer

Memory Drawers 2018
Producer

light of temptation 2018
Producer

Quest of the Battling Gods 2018
Producer

Time Autobahn 2018
Producer

The Red Bridge is Falling Down 2018
Producer
- 四季
四季 2017
Supervising Producer

Notes on Monstropedia 2017
Director

Candy.zip 2017
Producer

Cogito Wonderland 2017
Producer

AEON 2017
Producer

flower 2017
Producer

yelp 2017
Producer

The Story of a Motorbike 2017
Producer

RINGING CITY 2017
Producer

Self-Honest Me 2017
Producer

Squid Introspection 2017
Producer

There was a man 2017
Producer

Cosmopolite 2017
Producer

South Forest 2017
Producer

Nosferatu Maiden 2017
Producer

Water Dream 2017
Director, Animation

Satie's "Parade" 2016
Director, Writer, Animation, Producer

At The Mouth of Summer 2016
Producer

If Everyone Looked the Same 2016
Producer

mayumi 2016
Producer

Milky Ways 2016
Producer

RADIO WAVE 2016
Producer

First Hand Memories 2016
Producer

Red Forest 2016
Producer

Awakened Seed 2016
Producer

Starting Over 2016
Producer

CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness 2016
Producer

man of many arms 2016
Producer

Umbrella 2016
Producer

Silence 2016
Producer

Zodiac One Third 2016
Director

Film Adventurer Karel Zeman 2015
as Self

Color Blots 2015
Producer

Black Cat 2015
Producer

The Yellow Ball 2015
Producer

Crossing Sight 2015
Producer
- Tepid Bath
Tepid Bath 2015
Producer
- Missing You
Missing You 2015
Producer
- Fox Fears
Fox Fears 2015
Producer
- Zdravstvuite!
Zdravstvuite! 2015
Producer

Moonlit Night and Opal 2015
Producer

00:08 2014
Producer
- Everyday Sins
Everyday Sins 2014
Producer
- Exit My Room
Exit My Room 2014
Producer

Crazy Little Thing 2014
Producer

Through the Windows 2014
Producer
- My Dear
My Dear 2014
Producer
- See ya, Mr. Banno!
See ya, Mr. Banno! 2014
Producer
- Reinventing the Square Wheel
Reinventing the Square Wheel 2014
Producer
- Spoon
Spoon 2014
Producer
- aaH / Hee
aaH / Hee 2014
Producer
- Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA
Mrs. KABAGOdZILLA 2014
Producer

My Milk Cup Cow 2014
Producer
- Flower Bud
Flower Bud 2014
Producer

Kicking Rocks 2013
Producer
- A Gum Boy
A Gum Boy 2013
Producer

I’m Nothing 2013
Producer

My Frame 2013
Producer

Five Fire Fish 2013
Director

The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki 2013
Director

It’s Time for Supper 2013
Producer
- Maze King
Maze King 2013
Producer
- Wild Wild Ham
Wild Wild Ham 2013
Producer
- From a Stone
From a Stone 2013
Producer
- USALULLABY
USALULLABY 2013
Producer
- Ream
Ream 2013
Producer
- Cubic Centimeter
Cubic Centimeter 2013
Producer
- My Dear Flesh
My Dear Flesh 2013
Producer
- Spirits from the Night
Spirits from the Night 2012
Producer
- Sunset Flower Blooming
Sunset Flower Blooming 2012
Producer
- Awaiting
Awaiting 2012
Producer

People who are Eating 2012
Producer
- Flower and Steam
Flower and Steam 2012
Producer
- A Wind Egg
A Wind Egg 2012
Producer

Recruit Rhapsody 2012
Producer
- The Cloudy Dog Talk About
The Cloudy Dog Talk About 2012
Producer
- The Man Who Ate an Apple
The Man Who Ate an Apple 2012
Producer

Muybridge's Strings 2011
Director, Editor, Screenplay, Animation
- The Grouse in Snow Mountain
The Grouse in Snow Mountain 2011
Producer
- Spots Spots
Spots Spots 2011
Producer
- From the Dolphin
From the Dolphin 2011
Producer
- Scripta volant
Scripta volant 2011
Producer
- Anthology with Cranes
Anthology with Cranes 2011
Director

In a Pig's Eye 2010
Producer

Nihon no Uta Film (Red Disc) 2010
Director

Woman Who Stole Fingers 2010
Producer

Googuri Googuri 2010
Producer

Getting Dressed 2010
Producer

Bring Me Up 2010
Producer

Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor 2007
Director, Background Designer, Animation

A Child's Metaphysics 2007
Director

Man & Whale 2007
Director
- Fig
Fig 2006
Director, Editor, Animation

Tokyo Loop 2006
Director

The Old Crocodile 2005
Director

Frank & Wendy 2005
as Japanese Tourist (voice)

Tracing Jake 2004
Animation Director

Winter Days 2003
Director
- Pieces
Pieces 2003
Director, Writer

Mount Head 2002
Director, Editor, Animation, Production Design

Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows 2001
Animation Director
- Your Choice!
Your Choice! 2000
Director

Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee 1999
Director
- Bavel's Book
Bavel's Book 1996
Director
- Kid's Castle
Kid's Castle 1995
Director

The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish 1995
Animation
- Kipling Jr.
Kipling Jr. 1995
as Yohann Kipling, Director
- Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination
Karo and Piyobupt: Imagination 1993
Director
- Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches
Karo and Piyobupt: The Sandwiches 1993
Director
- Karo and Piyobupt: A House
Karo and Piyobupt: A House 1993
Director

The Elevator 1991
Director
- Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research
Perspektivenbox – Researcher's Research 1990
Director
- Japanese-English Pictionary
Japanese-English Pictionary 1989
Director

SONODA Video - Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter 1988
Director

Heavenly Bodies' Score 1987
Producer, Director

Cyclops 1987
Visual Development

Aquatic 1987
Director
- Quick-Sand
Quick-Sand 1987
Co-Director

Freshwater 1986
Director

Serenade 1985
Director, Screenplay

Natural History 1985
Director
Credits from TMDB.