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.

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

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...

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 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.

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.

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...

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