Isao Yamada

Known for: Directing
Movies: 118

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.

Upcoming Isao Yamada Movies

Amorphous diary

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

4.0

The Soul Odyssey

2003

6.5

Lynx Reel

1987

7.3

I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur

1992

7.3

Crystal

1988

6.0

A Star and a Propeller

2000

5.0

Crystal☆Rehearsal

1988

3.5

Flamme

1989

5.0

Endless Flâneuring

2018

5.5

Winter Flower

2003

6.0

The sun which shone like a pearl

2001

Filmography

2004	Playing Pretend
2000	Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
1992	Tokyo Dusk

Directing, Writing & Producing

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
2014	Marie from the Sea	Director
2014	In that Void Moment	Director
2014	Reflection	Director
2013	Looking for my Vision	Director
2012	Instant Memory	Director
2011	Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop	Director
2011	Despair Arabesque	Director
2010	Summer Dawn and December Dusk	Director
2010	Mad Love	Director
2010	Winterreise	Director
2009	Tokyo Nostalgia	Director
2009	Flower Obi	Director
2009	Walk to Talk	Director
2009	Velvety Silhouette	Director
2008	Chocolate	Director
2008	Phantom	Director
2008	Astronomical Symptom	Director
2008	Blindfold Proposition	Director
2008	Fantacium	Director
2008	Wrong-Side-Out Girl	Director
2008	Winter has a dream	Director
2007	Distant View of Funemakura	Director
2007	Delicate eyelashes	Director
2007	Blue Evening	Director
2007	Death at the Door	Director
2006	Twilight Umbrella	Director
2006	Film letter - OUFUKU V	Director
2006	Fragilitat	Director
2005	Cat on the tin roof	Director
2005	Skeleton in the Boy's Arms	Director
2005	Chrysanthemum Inspiration	Screenplay, Director
2004	Black Girl	Director
2004	Night Channel	Director
2004	Riverside Flower	Director
2004	Cobalt Glass	Director
2004	Autumn Pathos	Director
2004	Heat Haze	Director
2004	Germany: Maiglöckchen	Director
2004	The North Glimmer	Director
2004	Feel	Director
2003	The other world	Director
2003	The Soul Odyssey	Director, Screenplay
2003	Comet	Director
2003	Suspicious Alley	Director
2003	Winter Flower	Director
2002	Every Day	Director
2001	PUZZLE	Director
2001	Girl Orphee	Director
2001	The sun which shone like a pearl	Director
2000	A Star and a Propeller	Director
2000	Moon Globe	Director
1999	Swamp	Director, Writer
1999	Filmletter★oufuku IV	Director
1999	Lemon	Director
1999	Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love	Director
1999	Prism	Director
1999	Rain Drops	Director
1999	Planetarium	Director
1998	I have been looking at the dream continuously	Director
1997	Long Good-bye	Director
1996	The Tale of a Match	Director
1996	The Dream of Nickle	Director
1996	Fragmentation of Night	Director
1996	The Tale of a Doll	Director
1995	The Descendant of Androgynous	Director
1995	A Certain Secret	Director
1994	The Crown of Dreams	Director
1994	Tears of Socks	Director
1994	Travelogue	Director
1994	Desire Lost	Director
1994	Sakhalin Elegy	Director
1993	Film letter - OUFUKU III	Director
1993	A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon	Director
1993	Dress Philosophy	Director
1993	Far Away	Director
1992	Tokyo Dusk	Director
1992	I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur	Screenplay, Director
1991	Recollect	Director
1989	Incident's	Director
1989	Flamme	Director
1988	Crystal	Director, Writer
1988	The Sketch of Snow	Director
1988	Film letter - OUFUKU II	Director
1988	Yearning Is on a Roof	Director
1988	Crystal☆Rehearsal	Director
1988	Aesthetic Memory	Director
1987	Lynx Reel	Director
1987	Under the Shoes of Libbs	Director
1987	HINA	Director
1986	A silhouette	Director
1986	My lost heaven	Director
1986	Film letter - OUFUKU I	Director
1986	Augenblick	Director
1986	A lion and violet	Director
1986	Merry Christmas	Director
1985	All Alone	Director
1985	Un Image	Director
1984	Sad Gadolf	Director
1983	The Fan of Spiral Shell	Director
1983	CHIME’RE	Director
1982	Night of the Milky Way Railroad	Director
1981	Way home	Director
1980	A Marine Barber	Director
1978	Night Window	Director
1977	An incident of night	Director

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