Isao Yamada
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Hokkaidō, Japan
Isao Yamada
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.
Known For
Acting
(1992)
Crew
Amorphous diary
Director
(2024)
Instability of the Signal
Director
(2023)
(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)
Marie from the Sea
Director
(2014)
In that Void Moment
Director
(2014)
Sturm und Drang
Director
(2014)
Reflection
Director
(2013)
Looking for my Vision
Director
(2012)
Instant Memory
Director
(2011)
Despair Arabesque
Director
(2011)
(2010)
Mad Love
Director
(2010)
Winterreise
Director
(2010)
Summer Dawn and December Dusk
Director
(2009)
Tokyo Nostalgia
Director
(2009)
Walk to Talk
Director
(2009)
Velvety Silhouette
Director
(2009)
Flower Obi
Director
(2008)
Chocolate
Director
(2008)
Blindfold Proposition
Director
(2008)
Fantacium
Director
(2008)
Astronomical Symptom
Director
(2008)
Wrong-Side-Out Girl
Director
(2008)
Phantom
Director
(2008)
Winter has a dream
Director
(2007)
Delicate eyelashes
Director
(2007)
Blue Evening
Director
(2007)
Death at the Door
Director
(2007)
Distant View of Funemakura
Director
(2006)
Fragilitat
Director
(2006)
Film letter - OUFUKU V
Director
(2006)
Twilight Umbrella
Director
(2005)
Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
Director
(2005)
Chrysanthemum Inspiration
Screenplay, Director
(2005)
Cat on the tin roof
Director
(2004)
Autumn Pathos
Director
(2004)
Heat Haze
Director
(2004)
Riverside Flower
Director
(2004)
Germany: Maiglöckchen
Director
(2004)
Cobalt Glass
Director
(2004)
Night Channel
Director
(2004)
The North Glimmer
Director
(2004)
Black Girl
Director
(2004)
Feel
Director
(2003)
The Soul Odyssey
Director, Screenplay
(2003)
Suspicious Alley
Director
(2003)
Comet
Director
(2003)
The other world
Director
(2003)
Winter flower
Director
(2002)
Every Day
Director
(2001)
The sun which shone like a pearl
Director
(2001)
PUZZLE
Director
(2001)
Girl Orphee
Director
(2000)
Moon Globe
Director
(2000)
A star and a propeller
Director
(1999)
Lemon
Director
(1999)
Rain Drops
Director
(1999)
Prism
Director
(1999)
Planetarium
Director
(1999)
Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
Director
(1999)
Swamp
Director
(1999)
Filmletter★oufuku IV
Director
(1998)
(1997)
Long Good-bye
Director
(1996)
Fragmentation of Night
Director
(1996)
The Tale of a Doll
Director
(1996)
The Dream of Nickle
Director
(1996)
The Tale of a Match
Director
(1995)
A Certain Secret
Director
(1995)
The Descendant of Androgynous
Director
(1994)
Desire Lost
Director
(1994)
Sakhalin Elegy
Director
(1994)
Tears of Socks
Director
(1994)
The Crown of Dreams
Director
(1994)
Travelogue
Director
(1993)
Far Away
Director
(1993)
(1993)
Film letter - OUFUKU III
Director
(1993)
Dress Philosophy
Director
(1992)
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
Director, Screenplay
(1992)
Tokyo dusk
Director
(1991)
Recollect
Director
(1989)
Incident's
Director
(1989)
Flamme
Director
(1988)
Film letter - OUFUKU II
Director
(1988)
Crystal☆Rehearsal
Director
(1988)
Yearning Is on a Roof
Director
(1988)
The Sketch of Snow
Director
(1988)
Crystal
Director, Writer
(1988)
Aesthetic Memory
Director
(1987)
Under the Shoes of Libbs
Director
(1987)
HINA
Director
(1987)
Lynx Reel
Director
(1986)
Augenblick
Director
(1986)
Film letter - OUFUKU I
Director
(1986)
My lost heaven
Director
(1986)
A silhouette
Director
(1986)
A lion and violet
Director
(1986)
Merry Christmas
Director
(1985)
All Alone
Director
(1985)
Un Image
Director
(1984)
Sad Gadolf
Director
(1983)
CHIME’RE
Director
(1983)
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)
Boxer
Art Department Assistant
(1977)
An incident of night
Director
(1974)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Art Department Assistant