Directing · Hokkaidō, Japan

Isao Yamada

Biography

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 m...

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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 Marie from the Sea 2014 In that Void Moment 2014 Sturm und Drang 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 Delicate eyelashes 2007 Blue Evening 2007 Death at the Door 2007 Distant View of Funemakura 2007 Fragilitat 2006 Film letter - OUFUKU V 2006 Twilight Umbrella 2006 Skeleton in the Boy's Arms 2005 Cat on the tin roof 2005 Chrysanthemum Inspiration 2005 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 Soul Odyssey 2003 Suspicious Alley 2003 Comet 2003 The other world 2003 Winter Flower 2003 Every Day 2002 The sun which shone like a pearl 2001 PUZZLE 2001 Girl Orphee 2001 Moon Globe 2000 A Star and a Propeller 2000 Lemon 1999 Rain Drops 1999 Prism 1999 Planetarium 1999 Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love 1999 Swamp 1999 Filmletter★oufuku IV 1999 I have been looking at the dream continuously 1998 Long Good-bye 1997 Fragmentation of Night 1996 The Tale of a Doll 1996 The Dream of Nickle 1996 The Tale of a Match 1996 A Certain Secret 1995 The Descendant of Androgynous 1995 Desire Lost 1994 Sakhalin Elegy 1994 Tears of Socks 1994 The Crown of Dreams 1994 Travelogue 1994 Far Away 1993 A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon 1993 Film letter - OUFUKU III 1993 Dress Philosophy 1993 I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur 1992 Tokyo dusk 1992 Recollect 1991 Incident's 1989 Flamme 1989 Film letter - OUFUKU II 1988 Crystal☆Rehearsal 1988 Yearning Is on a Roof 1988 The Sketch of Snow 1988 Crystal 1988 Aesthetic Memory 1988 Under the Shoes of Libbs 1987 HINA 1987 Lynx Reel 1987 Augenblick 1986 Film letter - OUFUKU I 1986 My lost heaven 1986 A silhouette 1986 A lion and violet 1986 Merry Christmas 1986 All Alone 1985 Un Image 1985 Sad Gadolf 1984 CHIME’RE 1983 The Fan of Spiral Shell 1983 Night of the Milky Way Railroad 1982 Way home 1981 A Marine Barber 1980 Night Window 1978 An incident of night 1977
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