Yamamura Animation, Inc. Anime

A Parade by three managers and four performers. Koji Yamamura's new animation project, "Parade" de Satie (Satie's "Parade"). Erik Satie composed ballet music "Parade" in 1916 with 1917. Dutch indie jazz band, Willem Breuker Kollektief played this music and Koji Yamamura directs for Erik Satie's"Parade" as a surrealism animated ballet. It will be coming in 2016 that 150th anniversary Erik Satie and 100th-anniversary "Parade".

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North is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in these Norths. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I'm starting to wonder my efforts came to nothing. I'm just getting the occasional recognition of the existence of the world through the dull pain changes shape little by little.

"The basis for the animated film “Dozens of Norths” is the series of cover illustrations and short texts that I made across 32 issues of the monthly literary magazine “Bungaku-Kai” (Published by Bungeishunju) from April 2012 to December 2014. In this work, by fantasizing about a fictional movie, I thought of each independent cover as a scene of one larger story and wrote a text for each illustration I made." - Yamamura Kouji

A t production between 'Yamamura Animation' based in Japan, and 'Miyu Productions' based in . The film had it's world premier at the '8th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival' on 6 November 2021.

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A short animation by Kouji Yamamura, created in cooperation with the National Film Board of Canada.

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious monsterologist in Medieval Europe. This work depicts the habits of monsters using movement inspired by short phrases such as “Taste of Tears”, “Tamed Wildness”, etc.

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The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching out a carp, just at that moment he slept and he became a carp in dream. A carp was enjoy to swimming, but a fisherman caught that carp...

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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 animals" in scroll painting-style; this time,"Frolicking Sea Animals," in animation form, with a play on Japanese and English language word-plays: "Hokyoku-Guma Suggoku Hima. / Polar bear bears boredom", "Kawauso Kawaisou./Other otter, poor otter," etc.

This project is inspired by the Japanese picture scroll in the 12 to 13 century: Bird and Beast Character Caricature. Marine animals spread out in world ocean. Using the short rhythm of the poem, you will enjoy the various sea animals' thoughts and life. This rhyme verse in both English and Japanese at same means and this film is continued in one scene and one cut for 7 minutes.

Debuted at the 39th Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival on August 14, 2021 during the 'KIDSEYE FILM FESTIVAL - ANIMATED SHORTS'.

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A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.

Set on a small island in Japan where the director was born and raised, the film explores the relationship between the death of her father and the bomb storage in the mountain behind the family house.

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A man who was looking for the shortest thing in Tokyo uttered the word "da" at the last moment of his life.This work, produced as the first installment of the ``Bungaku Bideo'' collaboration project between contemporary Japanese literature and animation, is a recitation of "Totemo mijikai," an original work by Hideo Furukawa, by the author himself, and Koji Yamamura handled the animation.

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