Isao Yamada
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.
Directed (115)
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
Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
2011
Despair Arabesque
2011
Summer Dawn and December Dusk
2010
Mad Love
2010
Winterreise
2010
Tokyo Nostalgia
2009
Flower Obi
2009
Walk to Talk
2009
Velvety Silhouette
2009
Chocolate
2008
Phantom
2008
Astronomical Symptom
2008
Blindfold Proposition
2008
Fantacium
2008
Wrong-Side-Out Girl
2008
Winter has a dream
2008
Distant View of Funemakura
2007
Delicate eyelashes
2007
Blue Evening
2007
Death at the Door
2007
Twilight Umbrella
2006
Film letter - OUFUKU V
2006
Fragilitat
2006
Cat on the tin roof
2005
Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
2005
Chrysanthemum Inspiration
2005
Black Girl
2004
Night Channel
2004
Riverside Flower
2004
Cobalt Glass
2004
Autumn Pathos
2004
Heat Haze
2004
Germany: Maiglöckchen
2004
The North Glimmer
2004
Feel
2004
The other world
2003
The Soul Odyssey
2003
Comet
2003
Suspicious Alley
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
Moon Globe
2000
Swamp
1999
Filmletter★oufuku IV
1999
Lemon
1999
Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
1999
Prism
1999
Rain Drops
1999
Planetarium
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
The Crown of Dreams
1994
Tears of Socks
1994
Travelogue
1994
Desire Lost
1994
Sakhalin Elegy
1994
Film letter - OUFUKU III
1993
A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
1993
Dress Philosophy
1993
Far Away
1993
Tokyo dusk
1992
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
1992
Recollect
1991
Incident's
1989
Flamme
1989
Crystal
1988
The Sketch of Snow
1988
Film letter - OUFUKU II
1988
Yearning Is on a Roof
1988
Crystal☆Rehearsal
1988
Aesthetic Memory
1988
Lynx Reel
1987
Under the Shoes of Libbs
1987
HINA
1987
A silhouette
1986
My lost heaven
1986
Film letter - OUFUKU I
1986
Augenblick
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
Night Window
1978
An incident of night
1977
Amorphous diary
