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.
Directing
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Male
Unknown
Hokkaidō, Japan
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Tokyo Dusk
Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
Playing Pretend
The sun which shone like a pearl
Marie from the Sea
Mosaïque en blanc
The Soul Odyssey
Delicate eyelashes
Chocolate
Straße - Transient Passage
Apparition's Moment
Fragmentation of Night
Long Good-bye
Tokyo Nostalgia
The Night of Copernicus
In that Void Moment
Looking for my Vision
Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
Despair Arabesque
Winterreise
Summer Dawn and December Dusk
Mad Love
Walk to Talk
Velvety Silhouette
Flower Obi
Fantacium
Astronomical Symptom
Blindfold Proposition
Phantom
Wrong-Side-Out Girl
Death at the Door
Blue Evening
Twilight Umbrella
Fragilitat
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Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
Night Channel
Riverside Flower
Black Girl
Germany: Maiglöckchen
Autumn Pathos
Heat Haze
Cobalt Glass
The North Glimmer
Suspicious Alley
Comet
Every Day
Moon Globe
Lemon
Prism
Rain Drops
Planetarium
Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
I have been looking at the dream continuously
The Tale of a Doll
The Dream of Nickle
The Tale of a Match
A Certain Secret
Desire Lost
Sakhalin Elegy
A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
Dress Philosophy
Far Away
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Recollect
Flamme
Incident's
Crystal☆Rehearsal
Yearning Is on a Roof
Film letter - OUFUKU II
Under the Shoes of Libbs
HINA
Augenblick
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CHIME’RE
Sturm und Drang
Reflection
LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
Instability of the Signal
Endless Flâneuring
All Alone
A silhouette
My lost heaven
Amorphous diary
Tears of Socks
The Descendant of Androgynous
Swamp
PUZZLE
Lynx Reel
Crystal
The Crown of Dreams
The Sketch of Snow
The other world
Cat on the tin roof
Distant View of Funemakura
An incident of night
Night Window
A Marine Barber
Night of the Milky Way Railroad
The Fan of Spiral Shell
Sad Gadolf
Way home
A Star and a Propeller
Girl Orphee
Un Image
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Aesthetic Memory
Winter Flower
Feel
Chrysanthemum Inspiration
Winter has a dream
Instant Memory
Reminiscence
A lion and violet
Merry Christmas
Travelogue
Aurora's Flame