Direction: Kōji Morimoto

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kōji Morimoto. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Magnetic Rose

1995 · Movie · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Plot "Magnetic Rose" is about what happens when a deep space corporate freighter is called upon to investigate a distress signal from what ought to be a derelict space station. The...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Memories

1995 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan

Direction Katsuhiro Ōtomo · Kōji Morimoto · Tensai Okamura

Plot Created by celebrated animé master Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Roujin Z), MEMORIES consists of three dazzling stories, each delivered with its own astonishing style. "Magnetic Rose," directed by Koji Morimoto (Animatrix)...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

The Animatrix

2003 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Andrew R. Jones · Shin'ichirō Watanabe · Mahiro Maeda · Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Plot The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation...

7.0

21K votes

7.0

21K votes

Beyond (S)

2003 · Movie · 13 min. · United States

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Plot Yoko's cat Yuki hasn't shown up for diner and this really concerns her as the cat never misses a meal. She starts looking, asking neighbors if they have seen the...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

6.6

196 votes

Robot Carnival

1987 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Katsuhiro Ōtomo · Atsuko Fukushima · Hiroyuki Kitakubo · Mao Lamdao

Plot This is a Fantasia-like anthology of robots. The most noble are Presence, Deprive, and Nightmare. Nightmare is the story of an evil, cybernetic overlord that rises one night and unleashes...

6.5

442 votes

6.5

442 votes

Short Peace

2013 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan

Direction Katsuhiro Ōtomo · Shuhei Morita · Hiroaki Ando · Hajime Katoki

Plot Otomo Katsuhiro’s upcoming animated film “Short Piece”, an omnibus featuring 4 short films, done in the format of Otomo’s earlier film Memories perhaps.

6.3

268 votes

6.3

268 votes

Dimension Bomb (S)

2007 · Movie · 20 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Plot An eccentric young girl summons boy from another dimension provoking by this her own dimension to explode later.

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes

Noiseman Sound Insect (S)

1997 · Movie · 15 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Plot The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the airwaves by turning it...

5.7

75 votes

5.7

75 votes

Eternal Family

1997 · Movie · 28 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Plot It started as a sociological experiment. 6 different people were brainwashed to think that they were a family and then put in arbitrary situations to see how they would react....

5.6

66 votes

5.6

66 votes

Sound & Fury (Music Video)

2019 · Movie · 41 min. · United States

Direction Michael Arias · Masayuki Matsumoto · Jumpei Mizusaki · Kōji Morimoto

Cast Chiyuki Kanazawa

Plot In this visual anime album, a mysterious conductor enters a post-apocalyptic hell into a brutal confrontation with two monstrous opponents.

5.6

122 votes

5.6

122 votes

18if (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto · Akira Nishimori

Plot Haruto Tsukishiro wakes up in a dream world dominated by strange and powerful entities called "Witches". To survive, he gets the assistance of research professor Katsumi Kanzaki and a mysterious...

5.4

29 votes

5.4

29 votes

Open the Door (S)

1995 · Movie · 11 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Plot It's bedtime, and Nonoko is about to go to sleep. But the play of light and shadow on those objects on the wall look almost like... a person.

5.2

36 votes

5.2

36 votes

Digital Juice (S)

2002 · Movie · 20 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroaki Ando · Osamu Kobayashi · Kōji Morimoto · Hidekazu Ohara

Plot Digital Juice is a series of six Studio 4°C shorts collected in January 2002 as a direct-to-DVD package film. Each short is directed by a different director. The shorts deal...

4.7

33 votes

4.7

33 votes

4.1

58 votes

Fly! Peek the Whale

1991 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

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Not rated

Urarochi Diamond (TV Miniseries)

2000 · Movie · 36 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Plot Uraroji Diamond is a very interactive DVD which takes you inside a Studio-4C-style town with all the weirdness inside, while you scour for episodes (very short, black and white, weird...

Not rated

Not rated

Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 5 min. · Japan

Direction Akitaro Daichi · Gisaburô Sugii · Akira Shigino · Tomomi Mochizuki

Plot Follow the romantic adventures of Edoka, a single woman from Tokyo who works in several hostess clubs. Each episode is directed by a reputed animation director and in a different...

Not rated

Not rated

Ai Monogatari: 9 Love Stories

1991 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto · Tomomi Mochizuki · Hidetoshi Ōmori · Hiroshi Hamazaki

Plot An OVA based on the work of Kawaguchi Kaiji consisting of nine independent stories, each animated by a different director. With Beatles music involved, somewhere.

Not rated

Not rated

Jack and the Beanstalk (S)

1989 · Movie · 13 min. · Japan

Direction Kōji Morimoto

Not rated

Not rated