Isao Yamada
Directing
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
Amorphous diary
Aurora's Flame
Instability of the Signal
LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
The Night of Copernicus
Reminiscence
Endless Flâneuring
Apparition's Moment
Straße - Transient Passage
Mosaïque en blanc
Sturm und Drang
Marie from the Sea
Reflection
Instant Memory
Despair Arabesque
Tokyo Nostalgia
Chocolate
Winter has a dream
Distant View of Funemakura
Delicate eyelashes
Film letter - OUFUKU V
Cat on the tin roof
Chrysanthemum Inspiration
Germany: Maiglöckchen
The North Glimmer
Feel
The other world
The Soul Odyssey
Comet
Winter Flower
Every Day
PUZZLE
Girl Orphee
The sun which shone like a pearl
A Star and a Propeller
Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
Swamp
Filmletter★oufuku IV
Prism
I have been looking at the dream continuously
Long Good-bye
Fragmentation of Night
The Descendant of Androgynous
Tears of Socks
The Crown of Dreams
Travelogue
Sakhalin Elegy
Tokyo dusk
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
Flamme
Incident's
Crystal
The Sketch of Snow
Crystal☆Rehearsal
Aesthetic Memory
Lynx Reel
HINA
A silhouette
My lost heaven
A lion and violet
Merry Christmas
All Alone
Un Image
Sad Gadolf
The Fan of Spiral Shell
Night of the Milky Way Railroad
Way home
A Marine Barber
Grass Labyrinth
Night Window
An incident of night
Boxer
Pastoral: To Die in the Country