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
- Sturm und Drang ... (Director)
- Reflection ... (Director)
- In that Void Moment ... (Director)
- Marie from the Sea ... (Director)
2013
- Looking for my Vision ... (Director)
2012
- Instant Memory ... (Director)
2011
- Despair Arabesque ... (Director)
- Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop ... (Director)
2010
- Mad Love ... (Director)
- Summer Dawn and December Dusk ... (Director)
- Winterreise ... (Director)
2009
- Tokyo Nostalgia ... (Director)
- Walk to Talk ... (Director)
- Velvety Silhouette ... (Director)
- Flower Obi ... (Director)
2008
- Winter has a dream ... (Director)
- Chocolate ... (Director)
- Phantom ... (Director)
- Wrong-Side-Out Girl ... (Director)
- Fantacium ... (Director)
- Blindfold Proposition ... (Director)
- Astronomical Symptom ... (Director)
2007
- Delicate eyelashes ... (Director)
- Distant View of Funemakura ... (Director)
- Death at the Door ... (Director)
- Blue Evening ... (Director)
2006
- Twilight Umbrella ... (Director)
- Film letter - OUFUKU V ... (Director)
- Fragilitat ... (Director)
2005
- Chrysanthemum Inspiration ... (Screenplay)
- Cat on the tin roof ... (Director)
- Skeleton in the Boy's Arms ... (Director)
2004
- Feel ... (Director)
- Riverside Flower ... (Director)
- The North Glimmer ... (Director)
- Heat Haze ... (Director)
- Germany: Maiglöckchen ... (Director)
- Night Channel ... (Director)
- Cobalt Glass ... (Director)
- Black Girl ... (Director)
- Autumn Pathos ... (Director)
2003
- The Soul Odyssey ... (Director)
- The other world ... (Director)
- Winter Flower ... (Director)
- Suspicious Alley ... (Director)
- Comet ... (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)
- Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
- Moon Globe ... (Director)
1999
- Filmletter★oufuku IV ... (Director)
- Swamp ... (Director)
- Rain Drops ... (Director)
- Lemon ... (Director)
- Prism ... (Director)
- Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love ... (Director)
- Planetarium ... (Director)
1998
- I have been looking at the dream continuously ... (Director)
1997
- Long Good-bye ... (Director)
1996
- Fragmentation of Night ... (Director)
- The Tale of a Doll ... (Director)
- The Tale of a Match ... (Director)
- The Dream of Nickle ... (Director)
1995
- The Descendant of Androgynous ... (Director)
- A Certain Secret ... (Director)
1994
- Travelogue ... (Director)
- The Crown of Dreams ... (Director)
- Tears of Socks ... (Director)
- Sakhalin Elegy ... (Director)
- Desire Lost ... (Director)
1993
- Dress Philosophy ... (Director)
- A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon ... (Director)
- Film letter - OUFUKU III ... (Director)
- Far Away ... (Director)
1992
- I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur ... (Director)
- Tokyo dusk
1991
- Recollect ... (Director)
1989
- Incident's ... (Director)
- Flamme ... (Director)
1988
- Aesthetic Memory ... (Director)
- Crystal ... (Director)
- The Sketch of Snow ... (Director)
- Yearning Is on a Roof ... (Director)
- Crystal☆Rehearsal ... (Director)
- Film letter - OUFUKU II ... (Director)
1987
- Lynx Reel ... (Director)
- HINA ... (Director)
- Under the Shoes of Libbs ... (Director)
1986
- Augenblick ... (Director)
- Merry Christmas ... (Director)
- A silhouette ... (Director)
- My lost heaven ... (Director)
- A lion and violet ... (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)