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