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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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
Straße - Transient Passage
Apparition's Moment
Chocolate
Long Good-bye
Tokyo Nostalgia
Fragmentation of Night
The Night of Copernicus
In that Void Moment
Blindfold Proposition
Mad Love
Looking for my Vision
Fantacium
Astronomical Symptom
Walk to Talk
Velvety Silhouette
Flower Obi
Wrong-Side-Out Girl
Despair Arabesque
Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
Winterreise
Phantom
Summer Dawn and December Dusk
Blue Evening
Death at the Door
Lemon
Rain Drops
Prism
Fragilitat
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Every Day
Moon Globe
I have been looking at the dream continuously
The Tale of a Doll
Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
Planetarium
Twilight Umbrella
Autumn Pathos
Heat Haze
Suspicious Alley
Riverside Flower
Germany: Maiglöckchen
Cobalt Glass
Night Channel
The North Glimmer
Comet
Black Girl
Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
The Dream of Nickle
The Tale of a Match
Far Away
A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
Recollect
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Crystal☆Rehearsal
A Certain Secret
Desire Lost
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Sakhalin Elegy
Dress Philosophy
Yearning Is on a Roof
Under the Shoes of Libbs
Incident's
Flamme
Augenblick
HINA
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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
Swamp
My lost heaven
PUZZLE
The Sketch of Snow
Amorphous diary
Tears of Socks
Lynx Reel
The Crown of Dreams
A Marine Barber
All Alone
Sad Gadolf
Cat on the tin roof
Night Window
An incident of night
The Descendant of Androgynous
Distant View of Funemakura
A silhouette
The Fan of Spiral Shell
The other world
Night of the Milky Way Railroad
Crystal
Way home
Girl Orphee
A Star and a Propeller
Un Image
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Aesthetic Memory
Reminiscence
Travelogue
Instant Memory
Chrysanthemum Inspiration
Winter Flower
Feel
Winter has a dream
A lion and violet
Merry Christmas
Aurora's Flame