Isao Yamada

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Directing

Yamada Isao was born in Hokkaido, 1952. He joined an experimental theatrical troupe “Tenjo Sajiki” of Terayama. He took charge of art and costume designs in Terayama’s movies. His first film “Subaru no Yoru” (Night on Pleiades) (1977) won a prize at Off-theater Film Festival (later the name changed to Pia Film Festival). Until now, he has made over 100 movies, mainly 8mm films. With motifs of the borderline between reality and dream, he draws pictorial world of nostalgia. The images with his unique world view have attracted critics worldwide, and some of his works are archived in foreign art museums and universities. He is also a cartoonist and book designer.

Filmography

• Aurora's Flame (2025)
• Instability of the Signal (2024)
• LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version) (2023)
• The Night of Copernicus (2020)
• Reminiscence (2019)
• Endless Flâneuring (2018)
• Apparition's Moment (2017)
• Straße - Transient Passage (2016)
• Mosaïque en blanc (2015)
• Sturm und Drang (2014)
• Marie from the Sea (2014)
• In that Void Moment (2014)
• Reflection (2014)
• Looking for my Vision (2013)
• Instant Memory (2012)
• Despair Arabesque (2011)
• Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop (2011)
• Mad Love (2010)
• Winterreise (2010)
• Summer Dawn and December Dusk (2010)
• Tokyo Nostalgia (2009)
• Walk to Talk (2009)
• Velvety Silhouette (2009)
• Flower Obi (2009)
• Chocolate (2008)
• Blindfold Proposition (2008)
• Fantacium (2008)
• Astronomical Symptom (2008)
• Wrong-Side-Out Girl (2008)
• Phantom (2008)
• Winter has a dream (2008)
• Distant View of Funemakura (2007)
• Delicate eyelashes (2007)
• Blue Evening (2007)
• Death at the Door (2007)
• Fragilitat (2006)
• Film letter - OUFUKU V (2006)
• Twilight Umbrella (2006)
• Cat on the tin roof (2005)
• Skeleton in the Boy's Arms (2005)
• Chrysanthemum Inspiration (2005)
• Playing Pretend (2004)
• Autumn Pathos (2004)
• Heat Haze (2004)
• Riverside Flower (2004)
• Germany: Maiglöckchen (2004)
• Cobalt Glass (2004)
• Night Channel (2004)
• The North Glimmer (2004)
• Black Girl (2004)
• Feel (2004)
• The other world (2003)
• The Soul Odyssey (2003)
• Suspicious Alley (2003)
• Comet (2003)
• Winter Flower (2003)
• Every Day (2002)
• PUZZLE (2001)
• Girl Orphee (2001)
• The sun which shone like a pearl (2001)
• A Star and a Propeller (2000)
• Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs (2000)
• Moon Globe (2000)
• Swamp (1999)
• Filmletter★oufuku IV (1999)
• Lemon (1999)
• Rain Drops (1999)
• Prism (1999)
• Planetarium (1999)
• Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love (1999)
• I have been looking at the dream continuously (1998)
• Long Good-bye (1997)
• The Tale of a Match (1996)
• The Dream of Nickle (1996)
• Fragmentation of Night (1996)
• The Tale of a Doll (1996)
• The Descendant of Androgynous (1995)
• A Certain Secret (1995)
• Tears of Socks (1994)
• The Crown of Dreams (1994)
• Travelogue (1994)
• Desire Lost (1994)
• Sakhalin Elegy (1994)
• Far Away (1993)
• A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon (1993)
• Film letter - OUFUKU III (1993)
• Dress Philosophy (1993)
• Tokyo Dusk (1992)
• I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur (1992)
• Recollect (1991)
• Incident's (1989)
• Flamme (1989)
• The Sketch of Snow (1988)
• Crystal (1988)
• Film letter - OUFUKU II (1988)
• Crystal☆Rehearsal (1988)
• Yearning Is on a Roof (1988)
• Aesthetic Memory (1988)
• Lynx Reel (1987)
• Under the Shoes of Libbs (1987)
• HINA (1987)
• My lost heaven (1986)
• A silhouette (1986)
• Augenblick (1986)
• Film letter - OUFUKU I (1986)
• A lion and violet (1986)
• Merry Christmas (1986)
• All Alone (1985)
• Un Image (1985)
• Sad Gadolf (1984)
• The Fan of Spiral Shell (1983)
• CHIME’RE (1983)
• Night of the Milky Way Railroad (1982)
• Way home (1981)
• A Marine Barber (1980)
• Grass Labyrinth (1979)
• Night Window (1978)
• An incident of night (1977)
• The Boxer (1977)
• Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
• Amorphous diary