Filmmaker, animator, graphic artist.
Born 1978 Tokyo. Based in London.

Selected Screenings and Exhibitions

2010 Breda International Film Festival
2009 New Nippon: Contemporary Film and Video from Japan. Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago.
2009 Glasgow Film Festival
2009 London Short Film Festival
2009 L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival.
2009 Pictoplasma, Berlin.
2009 Melbourne International Animation Festival
2008 Encounters Short Film Festival
2008 Animasivo. Festival de Mexico en el Centro Historico.
2008 The Geopolitics of Animation. Touring exhibition.
2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival
2008 London Short Film Festival
2008 Portable Film festival
2007 Becks Fusions ICA London. In collaboration with Matthew Herbert.
2007 “Videomix. Conversación Animada: Shahzia Sikande y Joji Koyama. La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
2007 “Pictures From a Floating World- Moving Image Japan.” Takahiko Iimura and Joji Koyama. Curzon Cinema, London.
2005 British Animation Festival
2005 Nokia Film Lab, Russia
2005 ResFest Digital FIlm Festival
2005 Onedotzero Digital Film Festival
2005 Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival
2004 Annecy International Animation Festival
2004 Edinburgh Film Festival
2004 Pictoplasma, Berlin.
2004 Darklight Digital Film Festival
2004 London International Animation Festival

Grants/Funding/Commissions/Awards

2008 Animasivo, Festival de Mexico.
2006 Animate! Arts Council of England and Channel 4
2005 Grand Prize Animation, Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival.
2005 Best Animated Film, Halloween Short Film festival, ICA London.
2004 MESH Scheme NESTA and Channel 4.

Collaborations

2009-on going. Theatre production ‘GURU GURU’ with Rotozaza (2009 British Council Showcase)
2007 Becks Fusions ICA London, A collaboration with Matthew Herbert.