Isao Yamada
Known for: Directing
Born: —
Place of birth: Hokkaidō, Japan
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.
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Filmography
121 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Aurora's Flame
2025
6.0
Instability of the Signal
2024
6.0
LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
2023
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The Night of Copernicus
2020
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Reminiscence
2019
5.0
Endless Flâneuring
2018
5.0
Apparition's Moment
2017
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Straße - Transient Passage
2016
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Mosaïque en blanc
2015
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Sturm und Drang
2014
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Marie from the Sea
2014NR
In that Void Moment
2014
5.0
Reflection
2014NR
Looking for my Vision
2013
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Instant Memory
2012NR
Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
2011
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Despair Arabesque
2011NR
Winterreise
2010NR
Summer Dawn and December Dusk
2010NR
Mad Love
2010
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Tokyo Nostalgia
2009NR
Walk to Talk
2009NR
Velvety Silhouette
2009NR
Flower Obi
2009
6.0
Chocolate
2008NR
Fantacium
2008NR
Astronomical Symptom
2008NR
Blindfold Proposition
2008NR
Phantom
2008NR
Wrong-Side-Out Girl
2008
6.0
Winter has a dream
2008
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Distant View of Funemakura
2007
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Delicate eyelashes
2007NR
Death at the Door
2007NR
Blue Evening
2007NR
Twilight Umbrella
2006NR
Fragilitat
2006
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Film letter - OUFUKU V
2006
5.0
Cat on the tin roof
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Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
2005
5.0
Chrysanthemum Inspiration
2005
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Playing Pretend
2004NR
Night Channel
2004NR
Riverside Flower
2004NR
Black Girl
2004
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Germany: Maiglöckchen
2004NR
Autumn Pathos
2004NR
Heat Haze
2004NR
Cobalt Glass
2004
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The North Glimmer
2004
7.0
Feel
2004
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The other world
2003
4.0
The Soul Odyssey
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Suspicious Alley
2003
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Comet
2003
5.5
Winter Flower
2003
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Every Day
2002
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PUZZLE
2001
8.0
Girl Orphee
2001
6.0
The sun which shone like a pearl
2001
6.0
A Star and a Propeller
2000
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Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
2000NR
Moon Globe
2000
8.0
Swamp
1999
5.0
Filmletter★oufuku IV
1999NR
Lemon
1999
7.0
Prism
1999NR
Rain Drops
1999NR
Planetarium
1999NR
Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
1999
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I have been looking at the dream continuously
1998
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Long Good-bye
1997NR
The Tale of a Match
1996NR
The Dream of Nickle
1996
8.0
Fragmentation of Night
1996NR
The Tale of a Doll
1996
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The Descendant of Androgynous
1995NR
A Certain Secret
1995
7.0
Tears of Socks
1994
6.0
The Crown of Dreams
1994
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Travelogue
1994NR
Desire Lost
1994
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Sakhalin Elegy
1994NR
A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
1993NR
Dress Philosophy
1993NR
Far Away
1993NR
Film letter - OUFUKU III
1993
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Tokyo Dusk
1992
7.3
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
1992NR
Recollect
1991
3.5
Flamme
1989
5.0
Incident's
1989
7.3
Crystal
1988
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The Sketch of Snow
1988
5.0
Crystal☆Rehearsal
1988NR
Yearning Is on a Roof
1988NR
Film letter - OUFUKU II
1988
6.0
Aesthetic Memory
1988
6.5
Lynx Reel
1987NR
Under the Shoes of Libbs
1987
6.0
HINA
1987
6.0
A silhouette
1986
5.0
My lost heaven
1986NR
Augenblick
1986NR
Film letter - OUFUKU I
1986
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A lion and violet
1986
6.0
Merry Christmas
1986
6.0
All Alone
1985
5.0
Un Image
1985
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Sad Gadolf
1984
7.0
The Fan of Spiral Shell
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CHIME’RE
1983
6.0
Night of the Milky Way Railroad
1982
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Way home
1981
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A Marine Barber
1980
7.2
Grass Labyrinth
1979
5.0
Night Window
1978
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An incident of night
1977
7.2
The Boxer
1977
7.5
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1974
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Amorphous diary
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