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)
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)
- In that Void Moment ... (Director)
- Reflection ... (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
- Walk to Talk ... (Director)
- Flower Obi ... (Director)
- Tokyo Nostalgia ... (Director)
- Velvety Silhouette ... (Director)
2008
- Fantacium ... (Director)
- Chocolate ... (Director)
- Phantom ... (Director)
- Blindfold Proposition ... (Director)
- Winter has a dream ... (Director)
- Wrong-Side-Out Girl ... (Director)
- Astronomical Symptom ... (Director)
2007
- Distant View of Funemakura ... (Director)
- Delicate eyelashes ... (Director)
- Blue Evening ... (Director)
- Death at the Door ... (Director)
2006
- Film letter - OUFUKU V ... (Director)
- Fragilitat ... (Director)
- Twilight Umbrella ... (Director)
2005
- Chrysanthemum Inspiration ... (Screenplay)
- Cat on the tin roof ... (Director)
- Skeleton in the Boy's Arms ... (Director)
2004
- Playing Pretend
- Riverside Flower ... (Director)
- The North Glimmer ... (Director)
- Germany: Maiglöckchen ... (Director)
- Black Girl ... (Director)
- Night Channel ... (Director)
- Autumn Pathos ... (Director)
- Heat Haze ... (Director)
- Feel ... (Director)
- Cobalt Glass ... (Director)
2003
- The Soul Odyssey ... (Director)
- The other world ... (Director)
- Comet ... (Director)
- Suspicious Alley ... (Director)
- Winter Flower ... (Director)
2002
- Every Day ... (Director)
2001
- Girl Orphee ... (Director)
- The sun which shone like a pearl ... (Director)
- PUZZLE ... (Director)
2000
- Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
- A Star and a Propeller ... (Director)
- Moon Globe ... (Director)
1999
- Filmletter★oufuku IV ... (Director)
- Swamp ... (Director)
- Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love ... (Director)
- Planetarium ... (Director)
- Rain Drops ... (Director)
- Prism ... (Director)
- Lemon ... (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 Match ... (Director)
- The Tale of a Doll ... (Director)
- The Dream of Nickle ... (Director)
1995
- The Descendant of Androgynous ... (Director)
- A Certain Secret ... (Director)
1994
- Desire Lost ... (Director)
- Tears of Socks ... (Director)
- The Crown of Dreams ... (Director)
- Travelogue ... (Director)
- Sakhalin Elegy ... (Director)
1993
- Film letter - OUFUKU III ... (Director)
- A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon ... (Director)
- Far Away ... (Director)
- Dress Philosophy ... (Director)
1992
- I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur ... (Screenplay)
- Tokyo Dusk
1991
- Recollect ... (Director)
1989
- Flamme ... (Director)
- Incident's ... (Director)
1988
- Crystal ... (Director)
- The Sketch of Snow ... (Director)
- Film letter - OUFUKU II ... (Director)
- Crystal☆Rehearsal ... (Director)
- Yearning Is on a Roof ... (Director)
- Aesthetic Memory ... (Director)
1987
- Lynx Reel ... (Director)
- Under the Shoes of Libbs ... (Director)
- HINA ... (Director)
1986
- A silhouette ... (Director)
- A lion and violet ... (Director)
- My lost heaven ... (Director)
- Augenblick ... (Director)
- Merry Christmas ... (Director)
- Film letter - OUFUKU I ... (Director)
1984
- Sad Gadolf ... (Director)
1983
- CHIME’RE ... (Director)
- The Fan of Spiral Shell ... (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
- The Boxer ... (Art Department Assistant)
- An incident of night ... (Director)
1974
- Pastoral: To Die in the Country ... (Art Department Assistant)