YAMAMURA Koji

b.1960s
Tokyo University of the Arts
Tokyo Zokei University
Birth

1964

Job

Animation artist

Picture book author

Illustrator

Graduate school professor

Educational Background

Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Design and Fine Arts Degree

Selected Awards

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Nomination

Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival, selection

Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Contrechamp Crystal Award

Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Short Film Crystal Award

Ottawa International Animation Festival, Grand Prize for Feature Animation

Ottawa International Animation Festival, Grand Prize for Short Animation

Ottawa International Animation Festival, Virtual Reality Winner

International Animation Film Festival Animafest Zagreb, Grand Competition - Short Film, Grand Prize

Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Grand Prize (2 times)

Internationales TrickFilm Festival STUTTGART, Grand Prize

Filmfest Dresden, Grand Prize

International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Grand Prize (2 times)

DOK Leipzig International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, 2 place (2 times)

Ars Electronica Festival, Auszeichnung Computeranimation /Visual Effects, 2 place

Japan Media Arts Festival, Excellence Award (6 times)

Mainichi Film Awards, Ōfuji Noburō Award

Kawakita Prize

Art Encouragement Prize

Medal with Purple Ribbon

Performances

International Congress of Psychology

Harvard University

Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University

Other

Jury member of the Annecy International Animation Festival

Jury member of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival

Jury member of the GLASS International Animation Festival

Jury member of the Japan Media Arts Festival

Jury member of the Shanghai International Film Festival

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Sub-chairman of the Japan Animation Association

Director for the Hiroshima Festival Media Arts Division

Hiroshima Animation Season Artistic Director

Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts

Visiting professor of China Academy of Art

Visiting professor of Tokyo Zokei University

Visiting professor of Aichi University of the Arts

Yamamura Animation Museum, Expo Aich

Koji Yamamura Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition: Where the Soul is Born, Ilf Children's Picture Gallery

Kōji Yamamura: Four Flashing Figures, Oblastní galerie Liberec

Visible Fantasy-Koji Yamamura animation+painting exhibition Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Koji Yamamura Une métaphysique des rêves, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Salle Norman-McLaren

As of May 2025

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Short Films

  • とても短い

    Extremely Short

    2024
    short film
    1

  • ホッキョクグマすっごくひま

    Polar Bear Bears Boredom

    2021
    short film
    1

  • ゆめみのえ

    Dreams Into Drawing

    2019
    short film
    1

  • 水の夢

    Water Dream

    2017
    short film
    1

  • 怪物学抄

    Notes on Monstropedia

    2016
    short film
    1

  • 干支1/3

    Zodiac One Third

    2016
    short film
    1

  • サティの「パラード」

    Satie's "Parade"

    2016
    short film
    1

  • 鐘声色彩幻想

    Begon Bell Care

    2014
    short film
    1

  • five fire fish

    2013
    short film
    1

  • 古事記 日向編

    The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki

    2013
    short film
    1

  • 鶴下絵和歌巻

    Anthology with Cranes

    2011
    short film
    1

  • マイブリッジの糸

    Mubridge's Strings

    2011
    short film
    1

  • こどもの形而上学

    A Child's Metaphysics

    2007
    short film
    1

  • カフカ 田舎医者

    Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor

    2007
    short film
    1

  • 無花果

    Fig

    2006
    short film
    1

  • 年をとった鰐

    The Old Crocodile

    2005
    short film
    1

  • けふは妹の眉描きに行き　綾ひとへ居湯に志賀の花濾して：杜国

    Kefu ha Imoto no Mayoi Kaniniyuki Ayahito he Woiyu ni Shiga no Hana Koshite: Tokoku

    2003
    short film
    1

  • おまけ

    Pieces

    2003
    short film
    1

  • 頭山

    Mt. Head

    2002
    short film
    1

  • どっちにする？

    Your Choice!

    1999
    short film
    1

  • バベルの本

    Bavel's book

    1996
    short film
    1

  • キッズキャッスル

    Kid's Castle

    1995
    short film
    1

  • キップリングJr.

    Kipling Jr.

    1995
    short film
    1

  • カロとピヨブプト「あめのひ」

    Karo & Piyobpt Imagination

    1992
    short film
    1

  • カロとピヨブプト「サンドイッチ」

    Karo & Piyobpt The Sandwiches

    1992
    short film
    1

  • カロとピヨブプト「おうち」

    Karo & Piyobpt A House

    1992
    short film
    1

  • ふしぎなエレベーター

    The Elevator

    1991
    short film
    1

  • 遠近法の箱 博士の捜し物

    Perspektivenbox Researcher's Research

    1990
    short film
    1

  • ひゃっかずかん

    Japanese-English Pictionary

    1989
    short film
    1

  • 月の小壜

    Little Lunar Jug

    1988
    short film

  • Ding Dong

    1988
    short film

  • 天体譜

    Heavenly Bodies's Score

    1987
    short film
    1

  • 水棲

    Aquatic

    1987
    short film
    1

  • 淡水

    Freshwater

    1986
    short film

  • 上を向いて...

    Up Turned...

    1985
    short film

  • 博物誌

    Natural History

    1985
    short film

  • 小夜曲

    Serenade

    1985
    short film

  • オーム博士星へ行く

    Dr. Owm Goes to the Star

    1984
    short film

  • 台所会議

    Council at the Kitchen

    1979
    short film

  • SF 最後の審判

    SF Last Judgment

    1978
    short film

  • しょーとしょーとしょうげきじょう

    Short Short Show Theater

    1978
    short film

Other Works

  • 幾多の北

    Dozens of Norths

    2022
    feature film
    1

  • 耳に棲むもの

    My Inner Ear Quartet

    2023
    VR
    1

  • ジュビリー

    Jubilee

    1999
    music video
    1

  • WILDAID Hankograph

    2019
    CM
    1

  • JR東日本グループ企業広告

    JR East Japan Railway Company Group

    2016–2017
    CM
    1

  • 大同生命企業広告

    Daido Life Insurance Company

    2005–2012
    CM
    1

  • パクシ

    Pacusi

    1994–1995
    TV
    1

  • 英語であそぼ プラネット・パラダイス

    Eigo de Asobo Planet Paladice

    1995–1998
    TV
    1

  • あさごはんマーチ

    Asagohan March

    2001, 2019
    TV
    1

  • プレキソ英語

    Prekiso Eigo

    2011–2012
    TV
    1

  • 小さな夢

    Chiisana Yume

    2022
    TV
    1

  • Archive of Lights 国立映画アーカイブ所蔵作品先付け映像

    Archive of Lights, National Film Archive of Japan

    2017
    ID
    1

  • 骨嚙み

    A Bite of Bone

    2021
    produce
    1

  • ミニミニポッケの大きな庭で

    In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket

    2022
    produce
    1

  • 「文學界」雑誌表紙

    Bungakukai magazine cover

    2012–2014
    illustration

  • ぱれーど

    Parade

    2015
    picture book
    1

  • くじらさんのー たーめなら えんやこーら

    For the Sake of Mr. Whale, We'll Do Whatever It Takes

    2015
    picture book
    1

  • おやおや、おやさい

    Viva Vegetables !

    2010
    picture book
    1

  • くだもの だもの

    Fruits Friends' Fresh Talk

    2006
    picture book
    1

  • 創作アニメーション入門

    First Workshop for Creativity of Animation

    2017
    book
    1

  • アニメーションの世界へようこそ

    Welcome to Animation World

    2006
    book
    1

  • べるがなる

    Bells are Ring

    2017
    lyrics
    1

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