Isao Yamada
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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.
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I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur (1992)
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Sturm und Drang (2014)
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Swamp (1999)
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The Soul Odyssey (2003)
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Filmletter★oufuku IV (1999)
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Marie from the Sea (2014)
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A Star and a Propeller (2000)
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Reminiscence (2019)
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Girl Orphee (2001)
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Crystal (1988)
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LES ILLUMINATIONS (Short Version) (2023)
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Delicate eyelashes (2007)
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Fragmentation of Night (1996)
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The Sketch of Snow (1988)
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Merry Christmas (1986)
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Mosaïque en blanc (2015)
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Instant Memory (2012)
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Prism (1999)
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Chrysanthemum Inspiration (2005)
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A silhouette (1986)
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PUZZLE (2001)
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Lynx Reel (1987)
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Apparition's Moment (2017)
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Straße - Transient Passage (2016)
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The sun which shone like a pearl (2001)
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Crystal☆Rehearsal (1988)
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Under the Shoes of Libbs (1987)
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Winter Flower (2003)
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Chocolate (2008)
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Instability of the Signal (2024)
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Comet (2003)
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Reflection (2014)
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Tokyo Dusk (1992)
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Phantom (2008)
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The Tale of a Match (1996)
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Long Good-bye (1997)
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Flamme (1989)
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Winterreise (2010)
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Endless Flâneuring (2018)
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The other world (2003)
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Aurora's Flame (2025)
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Tears of Socks (1994)
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The Fan of Spiral Shell (1983)
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Way home (1981)
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Amorphous diary (—)
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Germany: Maiglöckchen (2004)
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Night Window (1978)
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My lost heaven (1986)
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Black Girl (2004)
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Cobalt Glass (2004)
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A moment before both eyes memorize a phenomenon (1993)
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Feel (2004)
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Walk to Talk (2009)
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Twilight Umbrella (2006)
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Wrong-Side-Out Girl (2008)
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Blindfold Proposition (2008)
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A Marine Barber (1980)
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Sad Gadolf (1984)
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Rain Drops (1999)
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Bokutou's Dream's Cat's Love (1999)
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Night of the Milky Way Railroad (1982)
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Dress Philosophy (1993)
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Tokyo Nostalgia (2009)
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Recollect (1991)
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I have been looking at the dream continuously (1998)
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Travelogue (1994)
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Distant View of Funemakura (2007)
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Cat on the tin roof (2005)
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Mad Love (2010)
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The Crown of Dreams (1994)
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Heat Haze (2004)
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Every Day (2002)
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Far Away (1993)
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A lion and violet (1986)
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Yearning Is on a Roof (1988)
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The Dream of Nickle (1996)
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Winter has a dream (2008)
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The Descendant of Androgynous (1995)
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Desire Lost (1994)
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Augenblick (1986)
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Flower Obi (2009)
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Night Channel (2004)
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Film letter - OUFUKU II (1988)
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Film letter - OUFUKU V (2006)
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Autumn Pathos (2004)
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Sakhalin Elegy (1994)
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CHIME’RE (1983)
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Film letter - OUFUKU III (1993)
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Astronomical Symptom (2008)
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Looking for my Vision (2013)
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Lemon (1999)
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Despair Arabesque (2011)
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Summer Dawn and December Dusk (2010)
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Suspicious Alley (2003)
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The Tale of a Doll (1996)
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An incident of night (1977)
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Film letter - OUFUKU I (1986)
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Un Image (1985)
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Fragilitat (2006)
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Planetarium (1999)
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Skeleton in the Boy's Arms (2005)
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The Night of Copernicus (2020)
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All Alone (1985)
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A Certain Secret (1995)
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Fantacium (2008)
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The North Glimmer (2004)
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Aesthetic Memory (1988)
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Moon Globe (2000)
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Riverside Flower (2004)
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HINA (1987)
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Spring Indication of Night and Autumn Moondrop (2011)
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Velvety Silhouette (2009)
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In that Void Moment (2014)
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Blue Evening (2007)
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Death at the Door (2007)
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Incident's (1989)
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