Isao Yamada

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

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.

Known For

Director

Amorphous diary

as Director

2020
2019
Reminiscence

as Director

2018
2017
2015
Mosaïque en blanc

as Director

2014
Marie from the Sea

as Director

2014
2014
Sturm und Drang

as Director

2014
Reflection

as Director

2013
2012
Instant Memory

as Director

2011
Despair Arabesque

as Director

2010
Mad Love

as Director

2010
Winterreise

as Director

2009
Tokyo Nostalgia

as Director

2009
Flower Obi

as Director

2009
Walk to Talk

as Director

2009
Velvety Silhouette

as Director

2008
Chocolate

as Director

2008
Phantom

as Director

2008
2008
2008
Fantacium

as Director

2008
2008
Winter has a dream

as Director

2007
Delicate eyelashes

as Director

2007
Blue Evening

as Director

2007
Death at the Door

as Director

2007
Kidnaper

as Director

2006
Twilight Umbrella

as Director

2006
2006
Fragilitat

as Director

2005
2004
Black Girl

as Director

2004
Night Channel

as Director

2004
Riverside Flower

as Director

2004
Cobalt Glass

as Director

2004
Autumn Pathos

as Director

2004
Heat Haze

as Director

2004
2004
The North Glimmer

as Director

2004
Feel

as Director

2003
The Soul Odyssey

as Director

2003
Comet

as Director

2003
Suspicious Alley

as Director

2003
The other world

as Director

2003
Winter flower

as Director

2002
Every Day

as Director

2001
PUZZLE

as Director

2001
Girl Orphee

as Director

2000
Moon Globe

as Director

2000
1999
Lemon

as Director

1999
Prism

as Director

1999
Rain Drops

as Director

1999
Planetarium

as Director

1999
Swamp

as Director

1999
1997
Long Good-bye

as Director

1996
1996
1996
1996
The Tale of a Doll

as Director

1995
A Certain Secret

as Director

1994
Desire Lost

as Director

1994
Sakhalin Elegy

as Director

1994
1994
Tears of Socks

as Director

1994
Travelogue

as Director

1993
1993
Dress Philosophy

as Director

1993
Far Away

as Director

1992
Tokyo dusk

as Director

1991
Recollect

as Director

1989
Incident's

as Director

1989
Flamme

as Director

1988
1988
1988
1988
Crystal

as Director

1988
The Sketch of Snow

as Director

1988
Aesthetic Memory

as Director

1987
1987
HINA

as Director

1987
Lynx Reel

as Director

1986
1986
Augenblick

as Director

1986
A silhouette

as Director

1986
My lost heaven

as Director

1986
A lion and violet

as Director

1986
Merry Christmas

as Director

1985
All Alone

as Director

1985
Un Image

as Director

1984
Sad Gadolf

as Director

1983
CHIME’RE

as Director

1983
1981
Way home

as Director

1980
A Marine Barber

as Director

1978
Night Window

as Director

1977

Writer

2005
2003
The Soul Odyssey

as Screenplay

Art

1979
Grass Labyrinth

as Production Design

1977
Boxer

as Art Department Assistant

1974
Pastoral: To Die in the Country

as Art Department Assistant

Actor