Kōji Yamamura

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Kōji Yamamura (2019)

Kōji Yamamura ( Japanese 山村 浩 二 Yamamura Kōji ; born June 4, 1964 in Nagoya , Japan ) is a Japanese animation film director .

At the age of thirteen he made his first cartoon. Yamamura studied painting at the Zokei University in Tokyo and finished his studies there in 1987. Films like One Night Serenade were made under the influence of Canadian and Russian animation artists .

In 1993 he founded the company Yamamura Animation Production together with his wife Sanae . The highlight of his career so far was the year 2003, in which his work Atama-yama ( 頭 d, dt. "Kopfberg") was nominated for the category Best Animated Short Film at the 2003 Academy Awards , as well as the Cristal d'Annecy , the most important award of the Festival d'Animation Annecy , won. This ten-minute film is about a man with a cherry tree growing on his head.

With Kafka: Inaka Isha , an adaptation of Franz Kafka's story Ein Landarzt was published in 2007 . For this he won the main prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival , the Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival , the Ōfuji Noburō Prize and the Grand Prix at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival .

His works are characterized by strong individuality and technically very diverse.

Filmography

  • 1985: 博物 誌 （hakubutsushi） "Natural History" (student production)
  • 1985: 小夜曲 （sayokyoku） "Serenade" (student production)
  • 1987: 水棲 （suisei） “Living in the water” (thesis; Yamamura Kôji: direction and animation), 5 min
  • 1989: ひ ゃ っ か ず か ん （Hyakka-zukan） "Illustrated Lexicon" (Yamamura Kôji: direction and animation), 12 min
  • 1990: 遠近 法 の 箱 （enkinhou no hako） "The box of perspective" (Yamamura Kôji: production, direction and animation), 4 min
  • 1991: ふ し ぎ な エ レ ベ ー タ ー (fushigi na elebêtâ) "The Strange Elevator" (Yamamura Kôji: direction and animation), 7 min
  • 1993: カ ロ と ピ ヨ ビ ピ ト 「お う ち」 (Karo to Piyobipito: o-uchi) "Karo and Piyobipito: the house" (Yamamura Kôji: production, direction and animation), 4 min 20 sec.
  • 1993: カ ロ と ピ ヨ ビ ピ ト 「サ ン ド イ ッ チ」 (Karo to Piyobipito: sandoicchi) "Karo and Piyobipito: the sandwich" (Yamamura Kôji: production, direction and animation), 4 min 20 sec.
  • 1993: カ ロ と ピ ヨ ビ ピ ト 「あ め の ひ」 (Karo to Piyobipito: ame no hi) "Karo and Piyobipito: the rainy day" (Yamamura Kôji: production, direction and animation), 4 min 20 sec.
  • 1995: パ ク シ “Pakushi” (Yamamura Kôji: direction and animation), 18 × 1 min
  • 1995: キ ッ プ リ ン グ Jr. "Kippling Jr." (Yamamura Kôji: direction and animation), 14 min
  • 1995: キ ッ ズ キ ャ ッ ス ル "Kids Castle" (Yamamura Kôji: direction and animation), 5 min
  • 1996: バ ベ ル の 本 (baberu no hon) "The Book of Babel" (Yamamura Kôji: direction and animation), 5 min
  • 1999: ど っ ち に す る？ (docchi ni suru?) "Which one?" (Yamamura Kôji: animation), 10 min
  • 2002: 頭 山 ( Atama-yama ) "Kopfberg" (Yamamura Kôji: direction, animation and editing), 10 min
  • 2003: 冬 の 日 (fuyu no hi) "winter day" (Yamamura Kôji: participation), 105 min
  • 2005: 年 を と っ た 鰐 (toshi o totta wani) "The aged crocodile" (Yamamura Kôji: director, screenplay, animation and editing; production: Yamamura animation), 13 min
  • 2006: Tokyo Loop (Yamamura Kôji: participation), 75 min
  • 2007: Kafka - Inaka isha ( カ フ カ 田 舎 医 者 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Wiedemann (Ed.): Animation Now! . Taschen, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8228-3789-4 , p. 169.
  2. ↑ Source filmography: "ア ニ メ ー シ ョ ン の 世界 へ よ う こ そ" (Welcome to the world of animation), Author: Yamamura Kôji, 岩 波 ジ ュ ニ ア 新書 (Iwanami Junior Shinsho) 538, 岩 波 書店 (Iwanami Shoten) 2006, ISBN 1
personal data
SURNAME Yamamura, Kōji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山村 浩 二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese animation film director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya , Japan