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