Isao Yamada

Directing

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.

Filmography

Aurora's Flame

2025 · Movie

Instability of the Signal

2024 · Movie

LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)

2023 · Movie

The Night of Copernicus

2020 · Movie

Reminiscence

2019 · Movie

Endless Flâneuring

2018 · Movie

Apparition's Moment

2017 · Movie

Straße - Transient Passage

2016 · Movie

Mosaïque en blanc

2015 · Movie

Sturm und Drang

2014 · Movie

Marie from the Sea

2014 · Movie

Reflection

2014 · Movie

In that Void Moment

2014 · Movie

Looking for my Vision

2013 · Movie

Instant Memory

2012 · Movie

Despair Arabesque

2011 · Movie

Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop

2011 · Movie

Winterreise

2010 · Movie

Mad Love

2010 · Movie

Summer Dawn and December Dusk

2010 · Movie

Tokyo Nostalgia

2009 · Movie

Walk to Talk

2009 · Movie

Flower Obi

2009 · Movie

Velvety Silhouette

2009 · Movie

Chocolate

2008 · Movie

Wrong-Side-Out Girl

2008 · Movie

Phantom

2008 · Movie

Winter has a dream

2008 · Movie

Blindfold Proposition

2008 · Movie

Astronomical Symptom

2008 · Movie

Fantacium

2008 · Movie

Distant View of Funemakura

2007 · Movie

Delicate eyelashes

2007 · Movie

Blue Evening

2007 · Movie

Death at the Door

2007 · Movie

Film letter - OUFUKU V

2006 · Movie

Twilight Umbrella

2006 · Movie

Fragilitat

2006 · Movie

Cat on the tin roof

2005 · Movie

Chrysanthemum Inspiration

2005 · Movie

Skeleton in the Boy's Arms

2005 · Movie

Playing Pretend

2004 · Movie

Feel

2004 · Movie

Germany: Maiglöckchen

2004 · Movie

2004 · Movie

2004 · Movie

2004 · Movie

2004 · Movie

2004 · Movie

The North Glimmer

2004 · Movie

Riverside Flower

2004 · Movie

The other world

2003 · Movie

The Soul Odyssey

2003 · Movie

Winter Flower

2003 · Movie

Comet

2003 · Movie

Suspicious Alley

2003 · Movie

Every Day

2002 · Movie

Girl Orphee

2001 · Movie

PUZZLE

2001 · Movie

The sun which shone like a pearl

2001 · Movie

A Star and a Propeller

2000 · Movie

Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs

2000 · Movie

Moon Globe

2000 · Movie

Swamp

1999 · Movie

Filmletter★oufuku IV

1999 · Movie

Prism

1999 · Movie

Rain Drops

1999 · Movie

Planetarium

1999 · Movie

Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love

1999 · Movie

Lemon

1999 · Movie

I have been looking at the dream continuously

1998 · Movie

Long Good-bye

1997 · Movie

The Tale of a Match

1996 · Movie

The Dream of Nickle

1996 · Movie

Fragmentation of Night

1996 · Movie

The Tale of a Doll

1996 · Movie

The Descendant of Androgynous

1995 · Movie

A Certain Secret

1995 · Movie

The Crown of Dreams

1994 · Movie

Tears of Socks

1994 · Movie

Travelogue

1994 · Movie

Desire Lost

1994 · Movie

Sakhalin Elegy

1994 · Movie

A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon

1993 · Movie

Dress Philosophy

1993 · Movie

Far Away

1993 · Movie

Film letter - OUFUKU III

1993 · Movie

Tokyo Dusk

1992 · Movie

I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur

1992 · Movie

Recollect

1991 · Movie

Flamme

1989 · Movie

Incident's

1989 · Movie

The Sketch of Snow

1988 · Movie

Crystal

1988 · Movie

Crystal☆Rehearsal

1988 · Movie

Yearning Is on a Roof

1988 · Movie

Film letter - OUFUKU II

1988 · Movie

Aesthetic Memory

1988 · Movie

Lynx Reel

1987 · Movie

Under the Shoes of Libbs

1987 · Movie

HINA

1987 · Movie

My lost heaven

1986 · Movie

A silhouette

1986 · Movie

Merry Christmas

1986 · Movie

A lion and violet

1986 · Movie

Augenblick

1986 · Movie

Film letter - OUFUKU I

1986 · Movie

Un Image

1985 · Movie

All Alone

1985 · Movie

Sad Gadolf

1984 · Movie

The Fan of Spiral Shell

1983 · Movie

CHIME’RE

1983 · Movie

Night of the Milky Way Railroad

1982 · Movie

Way home

1981 · Movie

A Marine Barber

1980 · Movie

Grass Labyrinth

1979 · Movie

Night Window

1978 · Movie

An incident of night

1977 · Movie

The Boxer

1977 · Movie

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974 · Movie

Amorphous diary

Movie