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Directing

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Gender

Male

Birthday

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.

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Tokyo dusk

Dec 31, 1992

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Acting

1992

Tokyo dusk

Art

1979

Grass Labyrinth as Production Design

1977

Boxer as Art Department Assistant

1974

Pastoral: To Die in the Country as Art Department Assistant

Directing

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Amorphous diary as Director

2024

Instability of the Signal as Director

2023

LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version) as Director

2020

The Night of Copernicus as Director

2019

Reminiscence as Director

2018

Endless Flâneuring as Director

2017

Apparition's Moment as Director

2016

Straße - Transient Passage as Director

2015

Mosaïque en blanc as Director

2014		Sturm und Drang as Director
2014		Marie from the Sea as Director
2014		In that Void Moment as Director
2014		Reflection as Director

2013

Looking for my Vision as Director

2012

Instant Memory as Director

2011		Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop as Director
2011		Despair Arabesque as Director

2010		Winterreise as Director
2010		Summer Dawn and December Dusk as Director
2010		Mad Love as Director

2009		Tokyo Nostalgia as Director
2009		Walk to Talk as Director
2009		Velvety Silhouette as Director
2009		Flower Obi as Director

2008		Chocolate as Director
2008		Fantacium as Director
2008		Astronomical Symptom as Director
2008		Blindfold Proposition as Director
2008		Phantom as Director
2008		Wrong-Side-Out Girl as Director
2008		Winter has a dream as Director

2007		Distant View of Funemakura as Director
2007		Delicate eyelashes as Director
2007		Death at the Door as Director
2007		Blue Evening as Director

2006		Twilight Umbrella as Director
2006		Fragilitat as Director
2006		Film letter - OUFUKU V as Director

2005		Cat on the tin roof as Director
2005		Skeleton in the Boy's Arms as Director
2005		Chrysanthemum Inspiration as Director

2004		Night Channel as Director
2004		Riverside Flower as Director
2004		Black Girl as Director
2004		Germany: Maiglöckchen as Director
2004		Autumn Pathos as Director
2004		Heat Haze as Director
2004		Cobalt Glass as Director
2004		The North Glimmer as Director
2004		Feel as Director

2003		The other world as Director
2003		The Soul Odyssey as Director
2003		Suspicious Alley as Director
2003		Comet as Director
2003		Winter flower as Director

2002

Every Day as Director

2001		PUZZLE as Director
2001		Girl Orphee as Director
2001		The sun which shone like a pearl as Director

2000		A star and a propeller as Director
2000		Moon Globe as Director

1999		Swamp as Director
1999		Filmletter★oufuku IV as Director
1999		Lemon as Director
1999		Prism as Director
1999		Rain Drops as Director
1999		Planetarium as Director
1999		Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love as Director

1998

I have been looking at the dream continuously as Director

1997

Long Good-bye as Director

1996		The Tale of a Match as Director
1996		The Dream of Nickle as Director
1996		Fragmentation of Night as Director
1996		The Tale of a Doll as Director

1995		The Descendant of Androgynous as Director
1995		A Certain Secret as Director

1994		Tears of Socks as Director
1994		The Crown of Dreams as Director
1994		Travelogue as Director
1994		Desire Lost as Director
1994		Sakhalin Elegy as Director

1993		A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon as Director
1993		Dress Philosophy as Director
1993		Far Away as Director
1993		Film letter - OUFUKU III as Director

1992		Tokyo dusk as Director
1992		I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur as Director

1991

Recollect as Director

1989		Flamme as Director
1989		Incident's as Director

1988		Crystal as Director
1988		The Sketch of Snow as Director
1988		Crystal☆Rehearsal as Director
1988		Yearning Is on a Roof as Director
1988		Film letter - OUFUKU II as Director
1988		Aesthetic Memory as Director

1987		Lynx Reel as Director
1987		Under the Shoes of Libbs as Director
1987		HINA as Director

1986		A silhouette as Director
1986		My lost heaven as Director
1986		Augenblick as Director
1986		Film letter - OUFUKU I as Director
1986		A lion and violet as Director
1986		Merry Christmas as Director