Ryoji Yamada
Directing
Biography
Born in 1987 and lived in Germany working as a trainee for the Japanese Council for Cultural Affairs, and studying at Filmakademie for 2018–2019 as a guest student. Finished MFA in Tama Art University in 2013, he was working at Garage Film .inc as an animator for 3 years, after he become a freelance. Continued to produce artwork alongside creating moving images for advertisements.Still an undergrad in 2010, he broke into the animation industry by participating in the International Animation Film Festival. Today, his films are screened in Japan and internationally at shows like the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Known For
While working as a taxi driver on the hectic streets of Tokyo, a reticent walrus gets pulled into a mystery involving a missing teenage girl.
ODDTAXI
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Anime Supernova
Waiter finished work, goes out and gets drunk.
Waiter
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Prayer X
Short animation by Ryoji Yamada
Rock'n Roll Bath
A young boy lives in peace, protected in a cave world. His life changes rapidly when his mom doesn’t come home, and he is forced to seek after her.
Firehead
An ambivalent declaration of love leads Aura into the unsettling world of a patient suffering from one of the world’s most prevalent diseases, whose side effects are shockingly unfamiliar to the majority of our society.
Aura
Animated short about the meaning of life.
Gravedad
Abstract animation by Ryoji Yamada
Uranof
The way the everyday and the extraordinary constantly change in the environment around us and within ourselves.
LaLaLa, BROTHERS
A short animation by Ryoji Yamada combining dreams and pictures.
Yume Utsutsu
Based on an old Russian folk song. This film was created in blackboard animation.
Tosca
Hunter is looking for Gossip every night. A short animated film by Ryoji Yamada
Hunter
This is an experimental animation work in which overflowing images and individual stories burst, mix, and burst again.
POPPING,MIXING
An event that happens to a man based on growth, psychology, egoism, and shamanism. Short animation by Ryoji Yamada at Tama Art University