Yukiyasu Shimada

Yukiyasu Shimada (しまだゆきやす written in hiragana). Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1964. He studied at the Image Forum Imaging Institute. Shimada was a director, film producer and cinematographer. He was the president of the Gandhara Film Festival and Image Rings Immoral Film Festival. He committed suicide on August 2011.

Out of Frame (1996)

Out of Frame (1996) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi
CAST:  Natsuyo Kanahama  •  Kenji Onishi  •  Takuji Suzuki  •  Yukiyasu Shimada

Out of Frame (1996) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi
CAST:  Natsuyo Kanahama  •  Kenji Onishi  •  Takuji Suzuki  •  Yukiyasu Shimada

Zetcho (The Acme) (1997)

Zetcho (1997) is a feature shot on video, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s problems, nature and brutalism, set against a colour-changing skyline or in small apartments. The structure of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi
CAST:  Kenji Onishi  •  Yukiyasu Shimada  •  Midori Takagi

Zetcho (1997) is a feature shot on video, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s problems, nature and brutalism, set against a colour-changing skyline or in small apartments. The structure of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi
CAST:  Kenji Onishi  •  Yukiyasu Shimada  •  Midori Takagi

Associations of Silverpencils (2011)

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi  •  Mabuchi Toru
CAST:  Mie Kurihara  •  Takahiko Iimura  •  Kenji Murakami  •  Yasunori Ikeda

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi  •  Mabuchi Toru
CAST:  Mie Kurihara  •  Takahiko Iimura  •  Kenji Murakami  •  Yasunori Ikeda

KE/FA (2000)

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.  (more)

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8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.  (more)

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Midori (2002)

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukiyasu Shimada
CAST:  Ichigo-chan  •  Yukiyasu Shimada

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukiyasu Shimada
CAST:  Ichigo-chan  •  Yukiyasu Shimada

My sister & Brookner (2003)

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukiyasu Shimada
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8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.  (more)

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Natsu ni umareru (1998)

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Murakami
CAST:  Kenji Murakami  •  Yukiyasu Shimada  •  Rie Uematsu  •  Shinobu Kuribayashi

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Murakami
CAST:  Kenji Murakami  •  Yukiyasu Shimada  •  Rie Uematsu  •  Shinobu Kuribayashi

AOMORI HACHI-NO-HE SKETCH  (1993)

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Ruins Spirit (2011)

A strange DVD brought in from a man claiming to be a freelance director.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukiyasu Shimada
CAST:  Yukari Oda  •  Tsubasa Haruya  •  Arisa Isshiki

A strange DVD brought in from a man claiming to be a freelance director.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukiyasu Shimada
CAST:  Yukari Oda  •  Tsubasa Haruya  •  Arisa Isshiki

A Picnic In Early Summer (2010)

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi
CAST:  Yukiyasu Shimada

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Onishi
CAST:  Yukiyasu Shimada