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

2025

Aurora's Flame ... (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)
Sturm und Drang ... (Director)
Marie from the Sea ... (Director)
In that Void Moment ... (Director)

2013

Looking for my Vision ... (Director)

2012

Instant Memory ... (Director)

2011

Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop ... (Director)
Despair Arabesque ... (Director)

2010

Summer Dawn and December Dusk ... (Director)
Winterreise ... (Director)
Mad Love ... (Director)

2009

Flower Obi ... (Director)
Tokyo Nostalgia ... (Director)
Walk to Talk ... (Director)
Velvety Silhouette ... (Director)

2008

Wrong-Side-Out Girl ... (Director)
Winter has a dream ... (Director)
Phantom ... (Director)
Chocolate ... (Director)
Blindfold Proposition ... (Director)
Astronomical Symptom ... (Director)
Fantacium ... (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

Skeleton in the Boy's Arms ... (Director)
Cat on the tin roof ... (Director)
Chrysanthemum Inspiration ... (Screenplay)

2004

Night Channel ... (Director)
Germany: Maiglöckchen ... (Director)
Cobalt Glass ... (Director)
Black Girl ... (Director)
Heat Haze ... (Director)
Autumn Pathos ... (Director)
Feel ... (Director)
The North Glimmer ... (Director)
Riverside Flower ... (Director)

2003

The Soul Odyssey ... (Director)
Suspicious Alley ... (Director)
Comet ... (Director)
Winter Flower ... (Director)
The other world ... (Director)

2002

Every Day ... (Director)

2001

Girl Orphee ... (Director)
The sun which shone like a pearl ... (Director)
PUZZLE ... (Director)

2000

1999

Planetarium ... (Director)
Lemon ... (Director)
Rain Drops ... (Director)
Swamp ... (Director)
Filmletter★oufuku IV ... (Director)
Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love ... (Director)
Prism ... (Director)

1998

I have been looking at the dream continuously ... (Director)

1997

Long Good-bye ... (Director)

1996

The Dream of Nickle ... (Director)
Fragmentation of Night ... (Director)
The Tale of a Doll ... (Director)
The Tale of a Match ... (Director)

1995

The Descendant of Androgynous ... (Director)
A Certain Secret ... (Director)

1994

Desire Lost ... (Director)
Tears of Socks ... (Director)
Sakhalin Elegy ... (Director)
Travelogue ... (Director)
The Crown of Dreams ... (Director)

1993

A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon ... (Director)
Dress Philosophy ... (Director)
Far Away ... (Director)
Film letter - OUFUKU III ... (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)
Crystal☆Rehearsal ... (Director)
Film letter - OUFUKU II ... (Director)
Yearning Is on a Roof ... (Director)

1987

Lynx Reel ... (Director)
HINA ... (Director)
Under the Shoes of Libbs ... (Director)

1986

Merry Christmas ... (Director)
A lion and violet ... (Director)
Film letter - OUFUKU I ... (Director)
My lost heaven ... (Director)
A silhouette ... (Director)
Augenblick ... (Director)

1985

Un Image ... (Director)
All Alone ... (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)