A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
山田勇男
Birthplace:
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.
Art Department Assistant:
1974 Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1977 Boxer
Director:
1974 Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1977 An incident of night
1977 Boxer
1978 Night Window
1980 A Marine Barber
1981 Way home
1982 Night of the Milky Way Railroad
1983 CHIME’RE
1983 The fan of spiral shell
1984 Sad Gadolf
1985 All Alone
1985 Un Image
1986 A lion and violet
1986 Amorphous diary
1986 Asilhouette
1986 Augenblick
1986 Film letter - OUFUKU I
1986 Merry Christmas
1986 My lost heaven
1987 HINA
1987 Lynx Reel
1987 Under the Shoes of Libbs
1988 Aesthetic Memory
1988 Crystal
1988 Crystal☆Rehearsal
1988 Film letter - OUFUKU II
1988 The Sketch of Snow
1988 Yearning Is on a Roof
1989 Flamme
1989 Incident's
1991 Recollect
1992 I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
1992 Tokyo dusk
1993 A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
1993 Dress Philosophy
1993 Far Away
1993 Film letter - OUFUKU III
1994 Desire Lost
1994 Sakhalin Elegy
1994 Tears of Socks
1994 The Crown of Dreams
1994 Travelogue
1995 A Certain Secret
1995 The Descendant of Androgynous
1996 Fragmentation of Night
1996 The Dream of Nickle
1996 The Tale of a Doll
1996 The Tale of a Match
1997 Long Good-bye
1998 I have been looking at the dream continuously
1999 Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
1999 Filmletter★oufuku IV
1999 Lemon
1999 Planetarium
1999 Prism
1999 Rain Drops
1999 Swamp
2000 A star and a propeller
2000 Moon Globe
2001 Girl Orphee
2001 PUZZLE
2001 The sun which shone like a pearl
2002 Every Day
2003 Comet
2003 Suspicious Alley
2003 The Soul Odyssey
2003 The other world
2003 Winter flower
2004 Autumn Pathos
2004 Black Girl
2004 Cobalt Glass
2004 Feel
2004 Germany: Maiglöckchen
2004 Heat Haze
2004 Night Channel
2004 Riverside Flower
2004 The North Glimmer
2005 Cat on the tin roof
2005 Chrysanthemum Inspiration
2005 Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
2006 Film letter - OUFUKU V
2006 Fragilitat
2006 Twilight Umbrella
2007 Blue Evening
2007 Death at the Door
2007 Delicate eyelashes
2007 Kidnaper
2008 Astronomical Symptom
2008 Blindfold Proposition
2008 Chocolate
2008 Fantacium
2008 Phantom
2008 Winter has a dream
2008 Wrong-Side-Out Girl
2009 Flower Obi
2009 Tokyo Nostalgia
2009 Velvety Silhouette
2009 Walk to Talk
2010 Mad Love
2010 Summer Dawn and December Dusk
2010 Winterreise
2011 Despair Arabesque
2011 Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
2012 Instant Memory
2013 Looking for my Vision
2014 In that Void Moment
2014 Marie from the Sea
2014 Reflection
2014 Sturm und Drang
2015 Mosaïque en blanc
2016 Straße - Transient Passage
2017 Apparition's Moment
2018 Endless Flâneuring
2019 Reminiscence
2020 The Night of Copernicus
2023 LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
2024 Instability of the Signal
Production Design:
1974 Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1977 An incident of night
1977 Boxer
1978 Night Window
1979 Grass Labyrinth
1980 A Marine Barber
1981 Way home
1982 Night of the Milky Way Railroad
1983 CHIME’RE
1983 The fan of spiral shell
1984 Sad Gadolf
1985 All Alone
1985 Un Image
1986 A lion and violet
1986 Amorphous diary
1986 Asilhouette
1986 Augenblick
1986 Film letter - OUFUKU I
1986 Merry Christmas
1986 My lost heaven
1987 HINA
1987 Lynx Reel
1987 Under the Shoes of Libbs
1988 Aesthetic Memory
1988 Crystal
1988 Crystal☆Rehearsal
1988 Film letter - OUFUKU II
1988 The Sketch of Snow
1988 Yearning Is on a Roof
1989 Flamme
1989 Incident's
1991 Recollect
1992 I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
1992 Tokyo dusk
1993 A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
1993 Dress Philosophy
1993 Far Away
1993 Film letter - OUFUKU III
1994 Desire Lost
1994 Sakhalin Elegy
1994 Tears of Socks
1994 The Crown of Dreams
1994 Travelogue
1995 A Certain Secret
1995 The Descendant of Androgynous
1996 Fragmentation of Night
1996 The Dream of Nickle
1996 The Tale of a Doll
1996 The Tale of a Match
1997 Long Good-bye
1998 I have been looking at the dream continuously
1999 Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
1999 Filmletter★oufuku IV
1999 Lemon
1999 Planetarium
1999 Prism
1999 Rain Drops
1999 Swamp
2000 A star and a propeller
2000 Moon Globe
2001 Girl Orphee
2001 PUZZLE
2001 The sun which shone like a pearl
2002 Every Day
2003 Comet
2003 Suspicious Alley
2003 The Soul Odyssey
2003 The other world
2003 Winter flower
2004 Autumn Pathos
2004 Black Girl
2004 Cobalt Glass
2004 Feel
2004 Germany: Maiglöckchen
2004 Heat Haze
2004 Night Channel
2004 Riverside Flower
2004 The North Glimmer
2005 Cat on the tin roof
2005 Chrysanthemum Inspiration
2005 Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
2006 Film letter - OUFUKU V
2006 Fragilitat
2006 Twilight Umbrella
2007 Blue Evening
2007 Death at the Door
2007 Delicate eyelashes
2007 Kidnaper
2008 Astronomical Symptom
2008 Blindfold Proposition
2008 Chocolate
2008 Fantacium
2008 Phantom
2008 Winter has a dream
2008 Wrong-Side-Out Girl
2009 Flower Obi
2009 Tokyo Nostalgia
2009 Velvety Silhouette
2009 Walk to Talk
2010 Mad Love
2010 Summer Dawn and December Dusk
2010 Winterreise
2011 Despair Arabesque
2011 Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
2012 Instant Memory
2013 Looking for my Vision
2014 In that Void Moment
2014 Marie from the Sea
2014 Reflection
2014 Sturm und Drang
2015 Mosaïque en blanc
2016 Straße - Transient Passage
2017 Apparition's Moment
2018 Endless Flâneuring
2019 Reminiscence
2020 The Night of Copernicus
2023 LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
2024 Instability of the Signal
Screenplay:
1974 Pastoral: To Die in the Country
1977 An incident of night
1977 Boxer
1978 Night Window
1979 Grass Labyrinth
1980 A Marine Barber
1981 Way home
1982 Night of the Milky Way Railroad
1983 CHIME’RE
1983 The fan of spiral shell
1984 Sad Gadolf
1985 All Alone
1985 Un Image
1986 A lion and violet
1986 Amorphous diary
1986 Asilhouette
1986 Augenblick
1986 Film letter - OUFUKU I
1986 Merry Christmas
1986 My lost heaven
1987 HINA
1987 Lynx Reel
1987 Under the Shoes of Libbs
1988 Aesthetic Memory
1988 Crystal
1988 Crystal☆Rehearsal
1988 Film letter - OUFUKU II
1988 The Sketch of Snow
1988 Yearning Is on a Roof
1989 Flamme
1989 Incident's
1991 Recollect
1992 I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
1992 Tokyo dusk
1993 A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon
1993 Dress Philosophy
1993 Far Away
1993 Film letter - OUFUKU III
1994 Desire Lost
1994 Sakhalin Elegy
1994 Tears of Socks
1994 The Crown of Dreams
1994 Travelogue
1995 A Certain Secret
1995 The Descendant of Androgynous
1996 Fragmentation of Night
1996 The Dream of Nickle
1996 The Tale of a Doll
1996 The Tale of a Match
1997 Long Good-bye
1998 I have been looking at the dream continuously
1999 Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love
1999 Filmletter★oufuku IV
1999 Lemon
1999 Planetarium
1999 Prism
1999 Rain Drops
1999 Swamp
2000 A star and a propeller
2000 Moon Globe
2001 Girl Orphee
2001 PUZZLE
2001 The sun which shone like a pearl
2002 Every Day
2003 Comet
2003 Suspicious Alley
2003 The Soul Odyssey
2003 The other world
2003 Winter flower
2004 Autumn Pathos
2004 Black Girl
2004 Cobalt Glass
2004 Feel
2004 Germany: Maiglöckchen
2004 Heat Haze
2004 Night Channel
2004 Riverside Flower
2004 The North Glimmer
2005 Cat on the tin roof
2005 Chrysanthemum Inspiration
2005 Skeleton in the Boy's Arms
2006 Film letter - OUFUKU V
2006 Fragilitat
2006 Twilight Umbrella
2007 Blue Evening
2007 Death at the Door
2007 Delicate eyelashes
2007 Kidnaper
2008 Astronomical Symptom
2008 Blindfold Proposition
2008 Chocolate
2008 Fantacium
2008 Phantom
2008 Winter has a dream
2008 Wrong-Side-Out Girl
2009 Flower Obi
2009 Tokyo Nostalgia
2009 Velvety Silhouette
2009 Walk to Talk
2010 Mad Love
2010 Summer Dawn and December Dusk
2010 Winterreise
2011 Despair Arabesque
2011 Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop
2012 Instant Memory
2013 Looking for my Vision
2014 In that Void Moment
2014 Marie from the Sea
2014 Reflection
2014 Sturm und Drang
2015 Mosaïque en blanc
2016 Straße - Transient Passage
2017 Apparition's Moment
2018 Endless Flâneuring
2019 Reminiscence
2020 The Night of Copernicus
2023 LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)
2024 Instability of the Signal
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