Isao Yamada

DirectorWriterActorArt Hokkaidō, Japan 1974–2024 (50 year career)

5.6 avg rating

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 uni…

Known For

Film

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Art Department Assistant

Film

Grass Labyrinth

Production Design

Film

Boxer

Art Department Assistant

Film

Lynx Reel

Director

Film

Crystal

Director

Film

I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur

Director

Film

A star and a propeller

Director

Film

Girl Orphee

Director

Filmography

Acting (2)

Movies (2)

Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs

2000

Tokyo dusk

1992

Crew (122)

Movies (122)

Instability of the Signal

2024

Director

6.0

LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)

2023

Director

The Night of Copernicus

2020

Director

Reminiscence

2019

Director

Endless Flâneuring

2018

Director

5.0

Apparition's Moment

2017

Director

Straße - Transient Passage

2016

Director

Mosaïque en blanc

2015

Director

Marie from the Sea

2014

Director

In that Void Moment

2014

Director

Reflection

2014

Director

5.0

Sturm und Drang

2014

Director

Looking for my Vision

2013

Director

Instant Memory

2012

Director

Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop

2011

Director

Despair Arabesque

2011

Director

Winterreise

2010

Director

Mad Love

2010

Director

Summer Dawn and December Dusk

2010

Director

Walk to Talk

2009

Director

Tokyo Nostalgia

2009

Director

Flower Obi

2009

Director

Velvety Silhouette

2009

Director

Blindfold Proposition

2008

Director

Astronomical Symptom

2008

Director

Fantacium

2008

Director

Wrong-Side-Out Girl

2008

Director

Phantom

2008

Director

Winter has a dream

2008

Director

Chocolate

2008

Director

Death at the Door

2007

Director

Blue Evening

2007

Director

Distant View of Funemakura

2007

Director

Delicate eyelashes

2007

Director

Film letter - OUFUKU V

2006

Director

Twilight Umbrella

2006

Director

Fragilitat

2006

Director

Skeleton in the Boy's Arms

2005

Director

Chrysanthemum Inspiration

2005

Director

5.0

Chrysanthemum Inspiration

2005

Screenplay

5.0

Cat on the tin roof

2005

Director

Autumn Pathos

2004

Director

Night Channel

2004

Director

Heat Haze

2004

Director

Cobalt Glass

2004

Director

Black Girl

2004

Director

Germany: Maiglöckchen

2004

Director

Riverside Flower

2004

Director

The North Glimmer

2004

Director

Feel

2004

Director

The Soul Odyssey

2003

Director

2.7

Comet

2003

Director

Suspicious Alley

2003

Director

Winter Flower

2003

Director

5.0

The other world

2003

Director

Every Day

2002

Director

Girl Orphee

2001

Director

8.0

The sun which shone like a pearl

2001

Director

PUZZLE

2001

Director

Moon Globe

2000

Director

A star and a propeller

2000

Director

5.5

Lemon

1999

Director

Planetarium

1999

Director

Prism

1999

Director

Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love

1999

Director

Rain Drops

1999

Director

Filmletter★oufuku IV

1999

Director

5.0

Swamp

1999

Director

Swamp

1999

Writer

I have been looking at the dream continuously

1998

Director

Long Good-bye

1997

Director

Fragmentation of Night

1996

Director

The Dream of Nickle

1996

Director

The Tale of a Doll

1996

Director

The Tale of a Match

1996

Director

The Descendant of Androgynous

1995

Director

A Certain Secret

1995

Director

Sakhalin Elegy

1994

Director

Desire Lost

1994

Director

The Crown of Dreams

1994

Director

Travelogue

1994

Director

Tears of Socks

1994

Director

Dress Philosophy

1993

Director

A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon

1993

Director

Far Away

1993

Director

Film letter - OUFUKU III

1993

Director

Tokyo dusk

1992

Director

I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur

1992

Director

6.5

I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur

1992

Screenplay

6.5

Recollect

1991

Director

Flamme

1989

Director

2.0

Incident's

1989

Director

Aesthetic Memory

1988

Director

Film letter - OUFUKU II

1988

Director

The Sketch of Snow

1988

Director

Crystal☆Rehearsal

Director

Crystal

Director

Crystal

Writer

Yearning Is on a Roof

1988

Director

Under the Shoes of Libbs

1987

Director

Lynx Reel

1987

Director

6.3

HINA

1987

Director

A silhouette

1986

Director

My lost heaven

1986

Director

Merry Christmas

1986

Director

A lion and violet

1986

Director

Augenblick

1986

Director

Film letter - OUFUKU I

1986

Director

Un Image

1985

Director

All Alone

1985

Director

Sad Gadolf

1984

Director

The fan of spiral shell

1983

Director

CHIME’RE

1983

Director

Night of the Milky Way Railroad

1982

Director

Way home

1981

Director

A Marine Barber

1980

Director

Grass Labyrinth

Production Design

Night Window

Director

An incident of night

Director

Boxer

1977

Art Department Assistant

6.8

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974

Art Department Assistant

7.4

Amorphous diary

Director