Isao Yamada
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Directing · Hokkaidō, Japan
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.
Titles
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Grass Labyrinth
Boxer
The Soul Odyssey
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
Lynx Reel
Crystal
A Star and a Propeller
Crystal☆Rehearsal
Flamme
Reflection
Chrysanthemum Inspiration
Instability of the Signal
Endless Flâneuring
Night Window
Night of the Milky Way Railroad
Girl Orphee
Filmletter★oufuku IV
Winter Flower
Tokyo dusk
Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs
The sun which shone like a pearl
Mosaïque en blanc
Marie from the Sea
Straße - Transient Passage
Delicate eyelashes
Chocolate
Apparition's Moment
Fragmentation of Night
Long Good-bye
Tokyo Nostalgia
The Night of Copernicus
Despair Arabesque
Film letter - OUFUKU V
I have been looking at the dream continuously
Comet
Prism
Germany: Maiglöckchen
Every Day
The North Glimmer
Sakhalin Elegy
Incident's
HINA
Sturm und Drang
LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
A silhouette
All Alone
The Crown of Dreams
Swamp
The Descendant of Androgynous
Amorphous diary
Tears of Socks
My lost heaven
PUZZLE
The Sketch of Snow
The Fan of Spiral Shell
An incident of night
The other world
Cat on the tin roof
A Marine Barber