KÅji Yamamura
Koji Yamamura (Japanese山村 浩 二Koji Yamamura; born June 4, 1964 in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese animation film director.
At the age of thirteen, he completed his first animated film. Yamamura studied painting at the Zokei University in Tokyo and completed his studies there in 1987. Influenced by Canadian and Russian animation artists made films such as One Night Serenade.
In 1993 he founded together with his wife Sanae Yamamura Animation Production company. The highpoint of his career was the year 2003, in which his work Atama -yama (头 山, dt " head mountain" ) for both the category of Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards in 2003, was nominated, as well as the Cristal d' Annecy, the main price the Festival d' Annecy animation, won. This ten-minute film is about a man on whose head a cherry tree grows.
With Kafka: Inaka Isha came out in 2007 a conversion of Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor. For this he won the main prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Hiroshima Kokusai on the Animation Festival, the Ofuji - Noburo Prize and the Grand Prix at the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart.
His works are characterized by a strong individuality and technically very diverse.