Animator Yamamura Kōji has won a reputation through works including the surreal Atamayama (Mount Head). In this interview he discusses the particular fascination of short-form animation, which he sees ...

Last year, we exclusively unveiled the first images from Dozens of Norths, the debut feature from Japanese indie luminary Koji Yamamura. The first trailer from this striking project is now out. (Note ...

Director Atsushi Wada won the Grand Prize for Short Animation for his “Bird in the Peninsula” at the 46th Ottawa International Animation Festival and Koji Yamamura received the Grand Prize for Feature ...

In this ongoing series, we profile the most interesting independent animation filmmakers working today — the artists who, through short films and other projects, change our ideas of what the medium ...

Koji Yamamura, an Oscar-nominated animation director from Japan, was a guest at this year's Biennial of Animation Bratislava. Two catastrophic events, a 2011 earthquake in Japan and a global ...

Kōji 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 ...

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Beautifully animated with an Eschersque twist at the end, Mount Head is a modern-day parable on the dangers of stinginess by Yamamura Koji from 2002. Apparently, being cheap will cause a cherry tree ...