Dean Yamada Movies

A pensive 11-year-old girl challenges the status quo with a group of misfit friends while attending a religious summer camp.

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance...

Kaz, a Japanese college student, is thrown into a world of depression after his best friend is murdered in America. Elsewhere, a girl named Michi...

In a country of haves and have nots, the fates of two dogs from opposite ends of society have profound effects on the families who own them.

A making-of documentary for the short film Ever-Flowing, directed by Lauren Good. Crafted as a love letter from the entire crew to their director.

A male #metoo story set in the classical music world.

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or...

A boy suffers from wanderlust and longs to see the world.

A co-worker confronts Mamoru on his apparent apathy toward life, and this results in Mamoru leaving his job out of humiliation. Now alone and without...

Told through the eyes of her little brother, 17 year old Autumn struggles to heal from an eating disorder.