Person
Isao Yamada
Directing · Hokkaidō, Japan
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 museums and universities. He is also a cartoonist and book designer.
Known for
The Boxer
Art Department Assistant
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Art Department Assistant
Grass Labyrinth
Production Design
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
Director
The Soul Odyssey
Director
Sturm und Drang
Director
Girl Orphee
Director
Way home
Director
A Star and a Propeller
Director
Blindfold Proposition
Director
Filmography
- 2025Aurora's FlameDirector
- 2024Instability of the SignalDirector
- 2023LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)Director
- 2020The Night of CopernicusDirector
- 2019ReminiscenceDirector
- 2018Endless FlâneuringDirector
- 2017Apparition's MomentDirector
- 2016Straße - Transient PassageDirector
- 2015Mosaïque en blancDirector
- 2014Sturm und DrangDirector
- 2014Marie from the SeaDirector
- 2014In that Void MomentDirector
- 2014ReflectionDirector
- 2013Looking for my VisionDirector
- 2012Instant MemoryDirector
- 2011Despair ArabesqueDirector
- 2011Spring Indication of Night and Autumn MoondropDirector
- 2010Mad LoveDirector
- 2010WinterreiseDirector
- 2010Summer Dawn and December DuskDirector
- 2009Tokyo NostalgiaDirector
- 2009Walk to TalkDirector
- 2009Velvety SilhouetteDirector
- 2009Flower ObiDirector
- 2008ChocolateDirector
- 2008Blindfold PropositionDirector
- 2008FantaciumDirector
- 2008Astronomical SymptomDirector
- 2008Wrong-Side-Out GirlDirector
- 2008PhantomDirector
- 2008Winter has a dreamDirector
- 2007Distant View of FunemakuraDirector
- 2007Delicate eyelashesDirector
- 2007Blue EveningDirector
- 2007Death at the DoorDirector
- 2006FragilitatDirector
- 2006Film letter - OUFUKU VDirector
- 2006Twilight UmbrellaDirector
- 2005Cat on the tin roofDirector
- 2005Skeleton in the Boy's ArmsDirector
- 2005Chrysanthemum InspirationScreenplay
- 2004Autumn PathosDirector
- 2004Heat HazeDirector
- 2004Riverside FlowerDirector
- 2004Germany: MaiglöckchenDirector
- 2004Cobalt GlassDirector
- 2004Night ChannelDirector
- 2004The North GlimmerDirector
- 2004Black GirlDirector
- 2004FeelDirector
- 2003The other worldDirector
- 2003The Soul OdysseyDirector
- 2003Suspicious AlleyDirector
- 2003CometDirector
- 2003Winter FlowerDirector
- 2002Every DayDirector
- 2001PUZZLEDirector
- 2001Girl OrpheeDirector
- 2001The sun which shone like a pearlDirector
- 2000A Star and a PropellerDirector
- 2000Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
- 2000Moon GlobeDirector
- 1999SwampDirector
- 1999Filmletter★oufuku IVDirector
- 1999LemonDirector
- 1999Rain DropsDirector
- 1999PrismDirector
- 1999PlanetariumDirector
- 1999Bokutou's Dream's Cat's LoveDirector
- 1998I have been looking at the dream continuouslyDirector
- 1997Long Good-byeDirector
- 1996The Tale of a MatchDirector
- 1996The Dream of NickleDirector
- 1996Fragmentation of NightDirector
- 1996The Tale of a DollDirector
- 1995The Descendant of AndrogynousDirector
- 1995A Certain SecretDirector
- 1994Tears of SocksDirector
- 1994The Crown of DreamsDirector
- 1994TravelogueDirector
- 1994Desire LostDirector
- 1994Sakhalin ElegyDirector
- 1993Far AwayDirector
- 1993A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenonDirector
- 1993Film letter - OUFUKU IIIDirector
- 1993Dress PhilosophyDirector
- 1992Tokyo Dusk
- 1992I've Heard the Ammonite MurmurDirector
- 1991RecollectDirector
- 1989Incident'sDirector
- 1989FlammeDirector
- 1988The Sketch of SnowDirector
- 1988CrystalDirector
- 1988Film letter - OUFUKU IIDirector
- 1988Crystal☆RehearsalDirector
- 1988Yearning Is on a RoofDirector
- 1988Aesthetic MemoryDirector
- 1987Lynx ReelDirector
- 1987Under the Shoes of LibbsDirector
- 1987HINADirector
- 1986My lost heavenDirector
- 1986A silhouetteDirector
- 1986AugenblickDirector
- 1986Film letter - OUFUKU IDirector
- 1986A lion and violetDirector
- 1986Merry ChristmasDirector
- 1985All AloneDirector
- 1985Un ImageDirector
- 1984Sad GadolfDirector
- 1983The Fan of Spiral ShellDirector
- 1983CHIME’REDirector
- 1982Night of the Milky Way RailroadDirector
- 1981Way homeDirector
- 1980A Marine BarberDirector
- 1979Grass LabyrinthProduction Design
- 1978Night WindowDirector
- 1977An incident of nightDirector
- 1977The BoxerArt Department Assistant
- 1974Pastoral: To Die in the CountryArt Department Assistant
- —Amorphous diaryDirector
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