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