Isao Yamada

Isao Yamada

Directing

116 films as director · Active 1977–2025

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 n…

Known for

Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs

Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs

2000

Tokyo dusk

Tokyo dusk

1992

Directed(116)

Aurora's Flame

2025Aurora's Flame

Instability of the Signal

2024Instability of the Signal★ 6.0

LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)

2023LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version)

The Night of Copernicus

2020The Night of Copernicus

Reminiscence

2019Reminiscence

Endless Flâneuring

2018Endless Flâneuring★ 5.0

Apparition's Moment

2017Apparition's Moment

Straße - Transient Passage

2016Straße - Transient Passage

Mosaïque en blanc

2015Mosaïque en blanc

Marie from the Sea

2014Marie from the Sea

2014In that Void Moment

Sturm und Drang

2014Sturm und Drang

Reflection

2014Reflection★ 5.0

2013Looking for my Vision

Instant Memory

2012Instant Memory

Despair Arabesque

2011Despair Arabesque

2011Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop

2010Winterreise

2010Summer Dawn and December Dusk

Tokyo Nostalgia

2009Tokyo Nostalgia

2009Walk to Talk

2009Velvety Silhouette

Chocolate

2008Blindfold Proposition

2008Astronomical Symptom

2008Wrong-Side-Out Girl

Winter has a dream

2008Winter has a dream

Delicate eyelashes

2007Delicate eyelashes

2007Blue Evening

2007Death at the Door

Distant View of Funemakura

2007Distant View of Funemakura

Film letter - OUFUKU V

2006Film letter - OUFUKU V

2006Twilight Umbrella

2005Skeleton in the Boy's Arms

Cat on the tin roof

2005Cat on the tin roof

Chrysanthemum Inspiration

2005Chrysanthemum Inspiration★ 5.0

2004Autumn Pathos

2004Riverside Flower

Germany: Maiglöckchen

2004Germany: Maiglöckchen

2004Cobalt Glass

2004Night Channel

The North Glimmer

2004The North Glimmer

Feel

The Soul Odyssey

2003The Soul Odyssey★ 4.0

2003Suspicious Alley

Comet

The other world

2003The other world

Winter Flower

2003Winter Flower★ 5.0

Every Day

The sun which shone like a pearl

2001The sun which shone like a pearl

PUZZLE

Girl Orphee

2001Girl Orphee★ 8.0

A Star and a Propeller

2000A Star and a Propeller★ 5.5

Prism

1999Planetarium

1999Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love

Swamp

Filmletter★oufuku IV

1999Filmletter★oufuku IV★ 5.0

I have been looking at the dream continuously

1998I have been looking at the dream continuously

Long Good-bye

1997Long Good-bye

Fragmentation of Night

1996Fragmentation of Night

1996The Tale of a Doll

1996The Dream of Nickle

1996The Tale of a Match

1995A Certain Secret

The Descendant of Androgynous

1995The Descendant of Androgynous

1994Desire Lost

Sakhalin Elegy

1994Sakhalin Elegy

Tears of Socks

1994Tears of Socks

The Crown of Dreams

1994The Crown of Dreams

Travelogue

1993A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon

1993Film letter - OUFUKU III

1993Dress Philosophy

I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur

1992I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur★ 7.3

Tokyo dusk

Incident's

Flamme

1989Flamme★ 2.0

1988Film letter - OUFUKU II

Crystal☆Rehearsal

1988Crystal☆Rehearsal★ 4.0

1988Yearning Is on a Roof

The Sketch of Snow

1988The Sketch of Snow

Crystal

1988Crystal★ 7.0

Aesthetic Memory

1988Aesthetic Memory

1987Under the Shoes of Libbs

HINA

Lynx Reel

1987Lynx Reel★ 6.3

1986Film letter - OUFUKU I

My lost heaven

1986My lost heaven

A silhouette

1986A silhouette

A lion and violet

1986A lion and violet

Merry Christmas

1986Merry Christmas

All Alone

Un Image

Sad Gadolf

The Fan of Spiral Shell

1983The Fan of Spiral Shell

Night of the Milky Way Railroad

1982Night of the Milky Way Railroad★ 6.0

Way home

A Marine Barber

1980A Marine Barber

Night Window

1978Night Window★ 5.0

An incident of night

1977An incident of night

Amorphous diary

—Amorphous diary

Acting(2)

2000Moh-Roh-Ushi Hot Springs

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