Directed credits
28
Established
Strong directing catalog.
Director
Koji Yamamura
Directing
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0.2
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Directed movies: 28Directed series: 0All crew credits: 162
TMDB ID: 932609
IMDb ID: nm0945520
Known for: Directing
Born: June 4, 1964
Age: 61
Place of birth: Nagoya, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1950 - 2025
Years active: 76
Average TMDB rating: 6.97
Wikidata: Q921662
Also known as
Yamamura • 山村 浩二 • Kouji Yamamura • Kôji Yamamura • Kouji YAMAMURA • Кодзи Ямамура
Frequent jobs
Director (27)Animation Director (1)Producer (130)Animation (1)Executive Producer (1)Original Music Composer (1)Production Supervisor (1)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Koji Yamamura.
My Inner Ear Quartet
Director
2024 Movie
8.0
Extremely Short
Director
2024 Movie
7.0
Polar Bear Bears Boredom
Director
2021 Movie
6.0
WildAid 'Hankograph'
Director
2019 Movie
Dreams into Drawing
Director
2019 Movie
6.5
Notes on Monstropedia
Director
2017 Movie
Water Dream
Director
2017 Movie
6.2
Satie's "Parade"
Director
2016 Movie
7.0
Zodiac One Third
Director
2016 Movie
3.5
The Hyuga Episode of Kojiki
Director
2013 Movie
Five Fire Fish
Director
2013 Movie
6.0
Muybridge's Strings
Director
2011 Movie
6.7
Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor
Director
2007 Movie
6.8
A Child's Metaphysics
Director
2007 Movie
6.5
Man & Whale
Director
2007 Movie
8.0
Tokyo Loop
Director
2006 Movie
5.5
Fig
Director
2006 Movie
6.5
The Old Crocodile
Director
2005 Movie
7.0
Tracing Jake
Animation Director
2004 Movie
5.9
Winter Days
Director
2003 Movie
6.3
Mount Head
Director
2002 Movie
6.5
Nakamura Kazuyoshi - Jubilee
Director
1999 Movie
6.5
The Elevator
Director
1991 Movie
SONODA Video - Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter
Director
1988 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Koji Yamamura.
7.0
A Bite of Bone
Producer
2021 Movie
Crossing Sight
Producer
2015 Movie
Kicking Rocks
Producer
2013 Movie
Squid Introspection
Producer
2017 Movie
MUNCH MUNCH
Producer
2021 Movie
Boozy Woozy Wonderland
Producer
2019 Movie
The Happy and Short Life of a Goldfish
Animation
1995 Movie
Take Me Home
Producer
2018 Movie
8.1
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman
as Self
2015 Movie
7.0
Tracing Jake
Animation Director
2004 Movie
5.9
Winter Days
Director
2003 Movie
7.9
My Little Goat
Producer
2018 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Koji Yamamura.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Koji Yamamura.
Carrots Don't Wait
Producer
2025 Movie
Joy of Life
Producer
2023 Movie
5.7
Dozens of Norths
Original Music Composer
2023 Movie
7.8
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Producer
2022 Movie
6.7
The House of Loss
Producer
2022 Movie
5.0
919
Producer
2022 Movie
Stained Smell
Producer
2022 Movie
Before Dawn
Producer
2022 Movie
Winter Star
Producer
2022 Movie
Poo Down Hill Up
Producer
2022 Movie
7.0
A Bite of Bone
Producer
2021 Movie
Round Trip
Producer
2021 Movie
Are you here, Ser Brunetto?
Production Supervisor
2021 Movie
Our 2
Producer
2021 Movie
Our Little Pond
Producer
2021 Movie
10.0
Brother
Producer
2021 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Koji Yamamura.
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Koji Yamamura.