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