Isao Yamada Movies

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

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...

A documentary that centers on filmmaker Mikio Yamazaki, exploring his artistic vision and his feelings towards 8mm film, the primary medium of his...

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

Dreams, signs, fragments, margins, letters, one could also add love and memory to the list. My enchanted kingdom is filled with real aimlessness. The...

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

Film of Simon Fisher Turner's new album, Instability of The Signal, directed by Japanese filmmaker Isao Yamada.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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