Isao Yamada


Isao Yamada is Japanese film director, graphic artist, and manga author.

Career

Yamada started his artistic career by working at Shuji Terayama's theatre company, Tenjousajiki. In 1974, he was appointed as an artistic crew in Terayama's feature-film, Denen ni Shisu. He also worked for Boxer, Kusameikyu, Saraba Hakobune.
At the same time in Sapporo, Yamada started a film club, Gingagahou-sha Eiga Club, with his colleague Yumekichi Minatoya in 1977. Ever since his first 8mm film made for the club, Subaru no Yoru was selected for Pia Film Festival, he has been constantly working with 8mm films. Most of them are short 'private films' and named by himself ‘Yamavicascope’. Since 1991, La Camera in Tokyo has produced regular duo-screenings of his films and the works by Yamazaki Mikio. In the filmography of Yamavicascope, the film-correspondences between Yamada and Yamazaki are titled as OUFUKU I~V. In addition to screenings in Japan, Yamada's experimental art works have been featured at Cannes, Oberhausen, Stockholm and other film festivals. His feature-films are Anmonaito no sasayaki wo kiita, Jouhatsu Tabinikki based on the essay by Yoshiharu Tsuge, and Shutorumu unto Doranku.
In addition to the cinema work, Yamada works with the media of manga, painting and graphic design. His calligraphic font has been appointed for a number of publications and advertisement posters.

Film works

There are more than one hundred oeuvres, The following is only a selected list and excludes the feature-films mentioned above.
G.S. Sirius, B&W and colour, 8mm

Art works