Isao Yamada

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Birthplace: Hokkaidō, Japan
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
Amorphous diary
2024-06-19 Instability of the Signal
2023-03-24 LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
2020-12-31 The Night of Copernicus
2019-01-01 Reminiscence
2018-03-01 Endless Flâneuring
2017-01-01 Apparition's Moment
2016-01-01 Straße - Transient Passage
2015-12-31 Mosaïque en blanc
2014-08-16 Sturm und Drang
2014-01-01 Marie from the Sea
2014-01-01 In that Void Moment
2014-01-01 Reflection
2013-01-01 Looking for my Vision
2012-01-01 Instant Memory
2011-01-01 Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
2011-01-01 Despair Arabesque
2010-01-01 Summer Dawn and December Dusk
2010-01-01 Mad Love
2010-01-01 Winterreise
2009-01-01 Tokyo Nostalgia
2009-01-01 Flower Obi
2009-01-01 Walk to Talk
2009-01-01 Velvety Silhouette
2008-01-01 Chocolate
2008-01-01 Phantom
2008-01-01 Astronomical Symptom
2008-01-01 Blindfold Proposition
2008-01-01 Fantacium
2008-01-01 Wrong-Side-Out Girl
2008-01-01 Winter has a dream
2007-12-31 Kidnaper
2007-01-01 Delicate eyelashes
2007-01-01 Blue Evening
2007-01-01 Death at the Door
2006-01-01 Twilight Umbrella
2006-01-01 Film letter - OUFUKU V
2006-01-01 Fragilitat
2005-12-31 Cat on the tin roof
2005-01-01 Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
2005-01-01 Chrysanthemum Inspiration
2004-01-01 Black Girl
2004-01-01 Night Channel
2004-01-01 Riverside Flower
2004-01-01 Cobalt Glass
2004-01-01 Autumn Pathos
2004-01-01 Heat Haze
2004-01-01 Germany: Maiglöckchen
2004-01-01 The North Glimmer
2004-01-01 Feel
2003-12-31 The other world
2003-06-28 The Soul Odyssey
2003-01-01 Comet
2003-01-01 Suspicious Alley
2003-01-01 Winter flower
2002-01-01 Every Day
2001-12-31 PUZZLE
2001-12-31 Girl Orphee
2001-01-01 The sun which shone like a pearl
2000-12-31 A star and a propeller
2000-01-01 Moon Globe
1999-12-31 Swamp
1999-05-20 Filmletter★oufuku IV
1999-01-01 Lemon
1999-01-01 Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
1999-01-01 Prism
1999-01-01 Rain Drops
1999-01-01 Planetarium
1998-01-01 I have been looking at the dream continuously
1997-10-23 Long Good-bye
1996-10-24 The Tale of a Match
1996-08-22 The Dream of Nickle
1996-01-01 Fragmentation of Night
1996-01-01 The Tale of a Doll
1995-12-31 The Descendant of Androgynous
1995-01-19 A Certain Secret
1994-12-31 The Crown of Dreams
1994-12-31 Tears of Socks
1994-04-28 Travelogue
1994-01-01 Desire Lost
1994-01-01 Sakhalin Elegy
1993-01-01 Film letter - OUFUKU III
1993-01-01 A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
1993-01-01 Dress Philosophy
1993-01-01 Far Away
1992-12-31 Tokyo dusk
1992-07-25 I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
1991-01-01 Recollect
1989-01-01 Incident's
1989-01-01 Flamme
1988-12-31 Crystal
1988-12-31 The Sketch of Snow
1988-01-01 Film letter - OUFUKU II
1988-01-01 Yearning Is on a Roof
1988-01-01 Crystal☆Rehearsal
1988-01-01 Aesthetic Memory
1987-04-28 Lynx Reel
1987-01-01 Under the Shoes of Libbs
1987-01-01 HINA
1986-12-31 A silhouette
1986-12-31 My lost heaven
1986-01-01 Film letter - OUFUKU I
1986-01-01 Augenblick
1986-01-01 A lion and violet
1986-01-01 Merry Christmas
1985-12-31 All Alone
1985-12-31 Un Image
1984-12-31 Sad Gadolf
1983-12-31 The fan of spiral shell
1983-01-01 CHIME’RE
1982-12-31 Night of the Milky Way Railroad
1981-12-31 Way home
1980-12-31 A Marine Barber
1978-12-31 Night Window
1977-12-31 An incident of night