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