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...

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...

An 8mm film by Isao Yamada.

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

A nonsense piece. It starts with the fact that there are two butters in the fridge at home, one for the top and one for the bottom, and then for some...

Color short film shot in 8mm by the Japanese Isao Yamada, filmmaker, visual artist and manga author.