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Anthology with Cranes
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HD / 2011/Japan/1min. 55sec./color Original painting (17th century) Sotatsu TAWARAYA Direction, Animation and Painting Koji YAMAMURA In between Koji YAMAMURA, Ayaka NAKATA, Miki TANAKA Assistant Sanae YAMAMURA Sound design Koji KASAMATSU Mix Kenji SAITO Thanks to Erika HASHIGUCHI, Chiyoda Raft Production Yamamura Animation (C) Yamamura Animation |
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Spans 13 meters 53 cm long picture scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, "Tsuru shitae waka kan (Anthology with Cranes)" (17th Century) is a unique painting to evoke the moving image. |
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Muybridge's Strings
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 (C) 2011 National Film Board of Canada / NHK / Polygon Pictures |
2011 /12 min. 39sec./ 35 mm /No dialogue /Canada, Japan Techniques: Drawing and painting on paper A CO-PRODUCTION OF THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, NHK AND POLYGON PICTURES Direction, Script, Editing Koji Yamamura Original Music, Sound Design Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand Executive Producers David Verrall (NFB), Kenji Saito (NHK), Shuzo John Shiota (Polygon) Producers Michael Fukushima (NFB), Keisuke Tsuchihashi (NHK), Shuzo John Shiota (Polygon) |
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| Can time be made to stand still? Can it be reversed? Koji Yamamura's Muybridge's Strings is a meditation on this theme, contrasting the worlds of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge -- who in 1878 successfully photographed consecu- tive phases in the movement of a galloping horse -- and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her. Moving between California and Tokyo, between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first, the film focuses on some of the high points in Muybridge's troubled life and intercuts them with the mother's surrealistic daydreams -- a poetic clash that explores the irrepressible human desire to seize life's fleeting moments, to freeze the instants of happiness. Enriched by Koji Yamamura's refined artistry and Normand Roger's soundtrack, Muybridge's Strings observes the ties that cease to bind, fixes its gaze on the course of life, and presents a moment in time suspended on the crystalline notes of a canon by J.S. Bach. |
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| Festival: FUTURE MEDIA FESTIVAL 2012 (Taiwan, Juanuary 01 to 19 February 2012, Official Site) Canadian Digital Animation Works 27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA, January 26 to February 5 2012, Official Site) Animation Shorts 2 Victoria Film Festival (Canada, February 3 to 12 2012, Official Site) SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATIONS ALIVE! (Odeon Theatre 12:15pm Feb 11) anima 2012 (Belgium, February 17 -26 2012, Official Site) International Competition - Short films 15th Japan Media Arts Festival (Japan, February 22 - March 4 2012, Official Site) Excellence Prize (Animation Division) 16th Animac 2011 (Spain, March 01 - 04 2012, Official Site) 32th Genie Awards (Canada, March 08 2012, Official Site) Nominee: Best Animated Short 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival (China, 21 March to 5 April 2012, Official Site) Short Film Competition and Animation Unlimited Jerusalem International Film Festival (Israel, July 5 to 14 2012, Official Site) Screenings: Japanese Short Animations at the front: Koji Yamamura and Geidai animations (Korea, Soeul Juanuary 26〜30 2012, Busan February 2 ~ 6 2012, JAPIC) cinma thque Takasaki (Japan, Gunma, February 4 to 10 2012, Official Site) Cin-mondo (Japan, Kanazawa, February 11 to 24 2012, Official Site) Theater Kino (Japan, Sapporo, February 18 to 24 2012, Official Site) Cinema Clair (Japan, Okayama, February 25 to March 2 2012, Official Site) Theater Ciema (Japan, Saga, February 25 2012, Official Site) Umeda Garden Cinema (Japan, Osaka, February 25 - March 09 2012, Official Site) Kobe Art Villege Center (Japan, Hyogo, March 03 - 162012, Official Site) Koyo Minami-Kaikan (Japan, Kyoto, 2012, Official Site) Cinema Lunatic (Japan, Ehime 2012, Official Site) |
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| Reviews: YOMIURI ONLINE (Japanese) [Katsuo Kokaji 2011.09.09] Movie & ... (Japanese) [Koyori Suzuki 2011.09.13] asahi.com (Japanese) [Atushi Obara 2011.09.26] UNZIP(Japanese) [yuki takeuchi 2011.09.26] Mythological world of "Muybridge's Strings" (Japanese) [Masao YokotaAnimations creators & critics 2011.11] The animals are standing (Japanese) [Nobuaki Doi Animations creators & critics 2011.11] Web (interview NFB.ca BlogMichael Fukushima [2010.11.08] Coco☆Montreal Koji Yamamura—Director of short animated films [2011.01.20] Cat's Forehead > Journal Koji Yamamura Interview [2011.09] DOMMUNE TALK LIVE Koji Yamamura SPECIAL New film Talk About Muybridge's Strings [2011.09.15] Daily Cyzo; Keita Kurosaka "MIDORI-KO" x Koji Yamamura "Muybridge's Strings" (first part), (later part) (Japanese)[2011.09. 16-17] Pia Satori Ito and funny fellows [2011.09. 15] webDICE Koji Yamamura Interview (Japanese) [2011.09.17] Animations creation & critics Koji Yamamura Interview "Muybridge's Strings" (Japanese) [2011.09.20] |
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| Animation Express 2 DVD Duration: 246 min 30 s Production Year: 2011 21 animations NFB >trailer NFB Digital Store>Sale in Canada |
Animation Express 2 Blu-ray Duration: 295 min 5 s Production Year: 2011 21 animations NFB >trailer NFB Digital Store>Sale in Canada |
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| ■Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor & Other Fantastic Films |
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| ■Biennial of Animation Bratislava |
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| Original Title:Kodomo no Keijijogaku English Title: A Child's Metaphysics 35 mm/1:1.85 (16:9) /DOLBY Digital/ 5 mint.8sec. /2007 Directed by Koji Yamamura Script, Edit, Character Design, Animation & Background Drawing Koji Yamamura Music Sergei Prokofiev Music Arrangement Hitomi Shimizu(SYZYGYS) Sound Design Koji Kasamatsu Producer Koji Yamamura  Japan Arts FundProduction Yamamura Animation A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are provided by fishes, a child who lies down on the floor and head-butts his identity, a child who cannot say anything because of a zipper across his mouth. He undo the zipper but under it is another zipper... Ecology and philosophy of children with sadness and humour.
Date of Production October 12, 2007 World premiere October 20, 2007 20th Tokyo International Film Festival >Site Anilogue Retorospective Program 29 November- 2 December >Official Site Animateka Retorospective Program 3 December- 9 December >Official Site 31th Göteborg International Film Festival Retorospective Program 25 January- 4 February, 2008>Official Site Animac 2008 Retorospective Program 28 February - 3 March, 2008>Site 19th Ankara Inaternational Film festival Retorospective Program 12 - 23 March, 2008>Site AniFest in Tchebo In Competition 7-13 May> Site MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival Iin Competition 8-18 May> Site SICAF 2008 Panorama 21-25 May>Site Zagreb ANIFEST2008 Panorama 31May-25 June >Site Annecy 2008 Panorama 9-14 June>Site Anima Mundi 2008 Curta Metragem/Short Film program Sao Paulo7/11~20, Rio de Janairo7/23~27>Site HIROSHIMA 08 12th International Animation Festival in Japan Official Invitation screening August 7-11>Site The festival Curta Santos Official Invitation screening 15-20 September >Site Ottawa International Animation Festival in Competition 17-21 September >Site ANIMADRID in Competition 26 September- 3 October >Site BFI 52nd London Film Festival Official Invitation screening 1 October -31 October> Site International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Competition 27 October - 2 November> Site animated dreams in Competition 19-27 November>Site Hida International Animation Festival of Folktales and Fables in Competition 6 December >Site International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand in Labo Competition January 30- 7 February, 2009> Site 12th Japan Media Arts Festival Awarded the Excellence Prize 4 - 15 February, 2009>Site 2009 New York International Children’s Film Festival in Competition 27 February - 15 March, 2009> Site Lucca Animation 2009 in Competition 18 - 22 March, 2009> Site |
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| Original Title:Kafka Inaka Isha English Title: Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor 35 mm/1:1.85 (16:9) /DOLBY Digital/ 21 mint./2007 ORIGINAL STORY Franz Kafka “Ein Landarzt” SCRIPT, STORY BOARD, CAMERA & EDITOR Koji Yamamura MUSIC Hitomi Shimizu(SYZYGYS) / SOUND DESIGN Koji Kasamatsu DIRECTED BY Koji Yamamura Voices DOCTOR Sensaku Shigeyam DOCTOR'S VOICE 1 Shigeru Shigeyama/DOCTOR'S VOICE 2 Doji Shigeyama PACKHORSE DRIVER Shime Shigeyama/ROSA Hitomi Kanehara/BOY Ippei Shigeyama CO PRODUCTION Yamamura Animation, Inc. PRODUCTION, SALES & DISTRIBUTION Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Official HP(Only Japanese):http://www.shochiku.co.jp/inakaisha |
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| Canne International Film Festival Market screening: 17 M ay 21:30 @ Palais E, 20 May 12:30 @ Gray 2, 21 May 21:00 @ Palais D >Site Annecy 2007 in Competition 11~16 June >Official Selection Short Films Japanese Cartoon Koji Yamamura screening in Moscow@Fitil 13 June Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Invitation screening 6 July 14:00@Theatre Karlovy Vary, 7 July 11:30@Cinema C - Thermal >Site Rhode Island International Film Festival in Competition 25 July-12 August >Site Melbourne International Film Festival in Competition 7 August-12 August >Site Fantoche 2007 Official Selection for the “World Wide Hits” 11-16 September >Site Ottawa International Animation Festival in Competition 19-23 September >Site KROK International Animation Festival in Competition 25 September- 6 October >Site ANIMADRID in Competition 28 September- 6 October >Site 45th New York Film Festival in Competition 28 September- 14 October >Site THE FESTIVAL: JAPANESE OCTOBER in Ravenna and Turin Official Invitation screening 1 October -31 October SITGES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF CATALONIA in Competition 4 October - 14 October >Site MONTREAL INT'L FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA in Competition 10 October - 21 October >Site Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation Official Invitation screening 10 October - 21 October > Site 20th Tokyo International Film Festival Official Invitation screening 20 October >Site 2007 Curta Cinema RIO DE JANEIRO INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL/26-04November > Site International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Competition 29 v- 4 November >Site FREDRIKSTAD ANIMATION FESTIVAL Official Invitation screening 7 November-11November >Site Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema Official Invitation screening 15 November-18November>Site International Film Festival "Etiuda&Anima 2007" in Competition 16 November- 22 November >Site LES SOMMETS DU CINEMA D’ANIMATION Official Invitation screening 17 - 18 November /23- 24 November>Site Animation Nation Retorospective Program 20 November- 27 November >Site 9. Animated Dreams 21 November- 25 November >Site I Castelli Animati 28 November- 2 December > Site Anilogue Retorospective Program 29 November- 2 December >Site Animateka Retorospective Program 3 December- 9 December >Site 31th Göteborg International Film Festival Retorospective Program 25 January- 4 February, 2008>Site Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in Competition 1-9 February, 2008>Site Anima 2008 in Competition 1-9 February, 2008>Site Animac 2008 Retorospective Program 28 February - 3 March, 2008>Site 19th Ankara International Film festival Retorospective Program 12 - 23 March, 2008>Site 15. Internationales TrickFilm Festival STUTTGART '08 in Competition 1-6 May>Site AniFest Iin Competition 7-13 May>Site MONSTRA 2008 Lisbon Animated Film Festival In Competition 8-18 May> Site 20th Sukagawa International Short Film festival Official Invitation screening 10-11 May>Site Anima Mundi 2008 Curta Metragem/Short Film program Sao Paulo7/11~20, Rio de Janairo7/23~27>Site HIROSHIMA 08 12th International Animation Festival in Japan In Competition August 7-11>Site animanima Inaternational Animation Festival in Servia In Competition September 10-13>Site The 10th Annual Animation Show of Shows South California: 10/13 Dreamworks Animation / East Coast: 10/15 Savannah College of Art and Design 10/16 Rochester Institute of Technology 10/17 Mass Art,Shool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University 10/18 Rhode Island Scool of Design, Brown University 10/20 Blue Sky, ASIFA NY, NYU, SVA, Pratt, Parsons Pacific Northwest: 10/22 Electronic Arts 10/23 Emily Carr Institute of Design 10/25 ASIFA Seattle 10/26 ASIFA PortlandBay Area 10/27 PDI, Deramworks, Electronic Arts, Industrial Light and Magic, ASIFA SF 10/28 Pixar, Big Rock, Skywalker Ranch 10/29 Imagemovers Digital, Electronic Arts, Tippett Studios Southern California：10/30 , ASIFA Hollywood South California: 11/3 Sony Animation 11/5 Disney Animation 27th Uppsala International Short Film Festival In Competition October 20-26>Site Holland Animation Film Festival In Competition November 5-9>Site |
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| Man & Whale | 07.11.10 |
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| Man & Whale (35mm 2 mint. 2007) Client:Greenpeace Japan/Agency:Leo Burnett / beacon communications/Production:Yamamura Animation/Director, Design:Koji Yamamura/Music:Hitomi Shimizu/Sound Design:Koji Kasamatsu >Kuji Love Animation Silver "New Director "(Short Film): Asia Pacific Advertising Festival 2008 EARTH VISION Prize for Children's Film: "EARTH VISION - The Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival" >Official Site Special Jury Award in TV Category : 5th China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival September 27 to 30>Official Site In Competition: Ottawa International Animation Festival >Official Site I Castelli Animati >Official Site Sapporo Short Fest >Official Site Official selection: 20th Tokyo International Film Festival >Site |
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| AWN Showcase | 06.02.23 |
| You can watch the art works of Koji Yamamura at the Famous Animator Gallery Series in Animation World Network AWN Showcase > AWN Famous Animator Gallery Series AWN Showcase > AWN Famous Animator Gallery Series > Koji Yamamura |
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| An animated film modeling Leopold Chauveau’s fantasy ‘Histoire du Vieux Crocodile’. Chauveau’s unique sarcasm sharply chisels in closer on the question of love and power, especially in this chaotic world of now. Truthfully following Chauveau’s illustration, every scene is simple and stoiccally depicted by mostly monochromatic lines and paint fields. Directed and animated by Academy award nominated artist Koji Yamamura, and voiced by Peter Barakan’s kind and cool narration, this film is finished as a long-lasting work, letting the audience laugh, sometimes weep, sense a subtle nuances of feeling, and always want to come back to see again. Articles: "The acting and camerawork are up to Yamamura's usual fluid standard, and, at 13 minutes, it's much too short." by Taylor Jessen, Animation World Network(April 2005 USA) >>Read all reviews(AWN) >>QuickTime Clip (AWN) “If you want or need an antidote to the often predictable formulas of Hollywood studios’ animated fare, look no further than Koji Yamamura’s pencil-drawn film The Old Crocodile.” by Chris Grove, ANIMATION MAGAZINE(July 2005 USA) "Before you notice, the silence of crocodile's figure will drug you into its own world." Pick Up (Oct+Nov. 2005 Japan) |
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| Grand prix Hida International Animation Festibal of Folktales and Fables The Best International Animation Film: The 3th annual International Animated Film Festival in Vilnius -Tindirindis Excellence Prize: Japan Media Arts Festival The Best Film in Category B: CINANIMA2005 Diploma for its sharp observations of life: Festival BIMINI Award for best screenplay: Wissembourg Animated Film Festival (RICA) In Competition: Annecy 2005 / Tabor Film festival /Anima Mundi 2005 / 54th Melbourne International Film Festivaln / London International Animation Film Festival / Ars Electronica Festival / Fantoche / KROK’2005 / Ottawa International Animation festival / Rever festival / 48th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film / CineEco2005 / L'ALTERNATIVA 2005. 12th BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL / FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FILMETS DE BADALONA/ ETIUDA&ANIMA 2005/ FIKE 2005 - Évora International Short Film Festival / Animated Dreams / Les Sommets du cinema d'fanimation / I Castelli Animati / Les Nuits Magiques / Future Film Festival 2006 / Anima 2006 / L' Elephant d' (festival Travelling Junior) / Festival Image par image / Festival d'un jour /Philadlephia Film Festival/ FilmFest Dresden / Media Wave / Brussels Short Film Festival / Animfest 2006 Trebon / Zagreb Anifest / SancyFilm Festival / Silhouette Court Metrage / Morbegno Film Festival World premiere: "World of Yamamura Animation"(Japan Society)NewYork Invitation:16th Filmfest Dresden / Anime Explosion! (The Kennedy Center) /Anifest2005 / 2005 Taiwan International Animation Festival / Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival 2005 / International Animation Film Festival, Animac 2006/ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ 13TH STUTTGART INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM / Isola Cinema festival / Sukagawa International Short Film Festival |
| Screening in France | 06.01.10 |
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| Koji Yamamura's animation works will be shown at the Festival Image par image in Auvers-sur-Oise, France from Januuary 31 to March 4. He also drawn a illstration for this festival's poster. |
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| DVD Les Maitres de L'animation Jpanaise KOJI YAMAMURA in France | 05.09.09 |
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| Les Maitres de L'animation Jpanaise KOJI YAMAMURA ses meilleurs courts-métrages I.D.E. Sale in France Les courts du DVD de Yamamura sont : Aquarium, Pictionnaire, Boite à perspective, Karo & Piyobuto "Maison", "Sandwich", "jour de pluie", Kipling Jr., Chateau d'enfant, Le livre de Bavel, Quel est ton choix ?, Atama Yama (le Mont Chef), Pièces |
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| Yamamura Animation in "EXPO 2005 Aichi,Japan" |
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| The EXPO 2005, Aichi, will open from 25, March to 25, September. "Yamamura Animation Museum" will be shown at "Wanpaku Treasure Island" in the" Interactive Fun Zone" located at Nagakute Area. You will enjoy a reprica of Altamira Cave art painted by Yamamura, animation art works, and visual toys to learn the principle of animation with fun. EXPO 2005 official site: http://www.expo2005.or.jp/ |
| Book: Animation Now! |
| German publisher TASCHEN 's newly released book"ANIMATION NOW!"(TASCHEN) introduces a contemporary animation arts including Koji Yamamura's. The book comes with DVD, including "Mt. Head" |
| Book: Animation Art |
| An animation history book is published in England "ANIMATION ART"(Flame Tree Publishing). "Mt. Head" is introduded in the book. |
| "Animation Show" |
| You can get a DVD include "Atama Yama (Mt.Head)" and Koji Yamamura desingned Logo T-shirts here. http://www.animationshow.com/ |
| "Independence in Japan" |
| Please access to the Animation World Network's HP http://www.awn.com/ There is an article by Gigi Hu, who is a Singaporean animation researcher from Hong Kong University, currently enrolled to Sophia University. The article which is titled "Independence in Japan", is about Keita Kurosaka and Koji Yamamura. You could see a quicktime movie of "Your Choice!" in this article.[00.01.29.up] |
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