Isao Yamada Movies

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...

Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active...

In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and...

A young geologist is traveling by train to visit his sister in the countryside after having received a mysterious letter from her.

In the winter of 1922 (Taisho 11), a poet and social activist Nakahama Tetsu returned from a wandering journey to reunite with Furuta Daijiro and...

Crystal unfolds as a series of evocative, non-linear vignettes where fleeting images and sensations merge into a meditation on memory and time. A...

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (B&W and Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

A short version of the 3-hour-long film for the exhibition featuring a film installation and photographic works based on Yamada ongoing 81-reel...

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

A young man is on an inner journey as he searches for meaning in love, eroticism and marriage. He boards a train, and all the clocks are mirrored...

A cinematic stroll through Germany