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Isao Yamada

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.

Et billede af Isao Yamada

Directing

1977

[ ] An incident of night (Director)

1978

[ ] Night Window (Director)

1980

[ ] A Marine Barber (Director)

1981

[ ] Way home (Director)

1982

[ ] Night of the Milky Way Railroad (Director)

1983

[ ] CHIME’RE (Director)
[ ] The fan of spiral shell (Director)

1984

[ ] Sad Gadolf (Director)

1985

[ ] All Alone (Director)
[ ] Un Image (Director)

1986

[ ] Film letter - OUFUKU I (Director)
[ ] Augenblick (Director)
[ ] A silhouette (Director)
[ ] My lost heaven (Director)
[ ] A lion and violet (Director)
[ ] Merry Christmas (Director)

1987

[ ] Under the Shoes of Libbs (Director)
[ ] HINA (Director)
[ ] Lynx Reel (Director)

1988

[ ] Film letter - OUFUKU II (Director)
[ ] Yearning Is on a Roof (Director)
[ ] Crystal☆Rehearsal (Director)
[ ] Crystal (Director)
[ ] The Sketch of Snow (Director)
[ ] Aesthetic Memory (Director)

1989

[ ] Incident's (Director)
[ ] Flamme (Director)

1991

[ ] Recollect (Director)

1992

[ ] I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur (Director)
[ ] Tokyo dusk (Director)

1993

[ ] Film letter - OUFUKU III (Director)
[ ] A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon (Director)
[ ] Dress Philosophy (Director)
[ ] Far Away (Director)

1994

[ ] Desire Lost (Director)
[ ] Sakhalin Elegy (Director)
[ ] The Crown of Dreams (Director)
[ ] Tears of Socks (Director)
[ ] Travelogue (Director)

1995

[ ] A Certain Secret (Director)
[ ] The Descendant of Androgynous (Director)

1996

[ ] Fragmentation of Night (Director)
[ ] The Dream of Nickle (Director)
[ ] The Tale of a Match (Director)
[ ] The Tale of a Doll (Director)

1997

[ ] Long Good-bye (Director)

1998

[ ] I have been looking at the dream continuously (Director)

1999

[ ] Lemon (Director)
[ ] Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love (Director)
[ ] Prism (Director)
[ ] Rain Drops (Director)
[ ] Planetarium (Director)
[ ] Swamp (Director)
[ ] Filmletter★oufuku IV (Director)

2000

[ ] Moon Globe (Director)
[ ] A Star and a Propeller (Director)

2001

[ ] The sun which shone like a pearl (Director)
[ ] PUZZLE (Director)
[ ] Girl Orphee (Director)

2002

[ ] Every Day (Director)

2003

[ ] The Soul Odyssey (Director)
[ ] Comet (Director)
[ ] Suspicious Alley (Director)
[ ] The other world (Director)
[ ] Winter flower (Director)

2004

[ ] Black Girl (Director)
[ ] Night Channel (Director)
[ ] Riverside Flower (Director)
[ ] Cobalt Glass (Director)
[ ] Autumn Pathos (Director)
[ ] Heat Haze (Director)
[ ] Germany: Maiglöckchen (Director)
[ ] The North Glimmer (Director)
[ ] Feel (Director)

2005

[ ] Skeleton in the Boy's Arms (Director)
[ ] Cat on the tin roof (Director)
[ ] Chrysanthemum Inspiration (Director)

2006

[ ] Twilight Umbrella (Director)
[ ] Film letter - OUFUKU V (Director)
[ ] Fragilitat (Director)

2007

[ ] Delicate eyelashes (Director)
[ ] Blue Evening (Director)
[ ] Death at the Door (Director)
[ ] Distant View of Funemakura (Director)

2008

[ ] Chocolate (Director)
[ ] Phantom (Director)
[ ] Astronomical Symptom (Director)
[ ] Blindfold Proposition (Director)
[ ] Fantacium (Director)
[ ] Wrong-Side-Out Girl (Director)
[ ] Winter has a dream (Director)

2009

[ ] Tokyo Nostalgia (Director)
[ ] Flower Obi (Director)
[ ] Walk to Talk (Director)
[ ] Velvety Silhouette (Director)

2010

[ ] Summer Dawn and December Dusk (Director)
[ ] Mad Love (Director)
[ ] Winterreise (Director)

2011

[ ] Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop (Director)
[ ] Despair Arabesque (Director)

2012

[ ] Instant Memory (Director)

2013

[ ] Looking for my Vision (Director)

2014

[ ] Marie from the Sea (Director)
[ ] In that Void Moment (Director)
[ ] Sturm und Drang (Director)
[ ] Reflection (Director)

2015

[ ] Mosaïque en blanc (Director)

2016

[ ] Straße - Transient Passage (Director)

2017

[ ] Apparition's Moment (Director)

2018

[ ] Endless Flâneuring (Director)

2019

[ ] Reminiscence (Director)

2020

[ ] The Night of Copernicus (Director)

2023

[ ] LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version) (Director)

2024

[ ] Instability of the Signal (Director)

????

[ ] Amorphous diary (Director)

Writing

1988

[ ] Crystal (Writer)

1992

[ ] I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur (Screenplay)

1999

[ ] Swamp (Writer)

2003

[ ] The Soul Odyssey (Screenplay)

2005

[ ] Chrysanthemum Inspiration (Screenplay)

Art

1974

[ ] Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Art Department Assistant)

1977

[ ] Boxer (Art Department Assistant)

1979

[ ] Grass Labyrinth (Production Design)

Actor

1992

[ ] Tokyo dusk (????)

2000

[ ] Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs (????)