is a
Japanese screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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and
novelist. His real name is .
Career
Born in
Asakusa, Tokyo, Yamada attended
Waseda University before entering the
Shōchiku film studios, where he trained as an assistant director under
Keisuke Kinoshita
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.Ronald Berganbr>"A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita" ''The Guardian'', 5 January 1999. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasu ...
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He left the company at age 30 to focus on writing scripts for television dramas, penning such successful series as ''Kishibe no arubamu'' and ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi''.
He has also written scripts for film and the stage.
As a novelist, his novel , published in 1987, won the
Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
The is a Japanese literary award established in 1988 in memory of author Shūgorō Yamamoto. It was created and continues to be sponsored by the Shinchosha Publishing company, which published Yamamoto's ''Complete Works''. The prize is awarded ann ...
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It was translated into English, in 2004, as ''
Strangers
A stranger is a person who is unknown to another person or group. Because of this unknown status, a stranger may be perceived as a threat until their identity (social science), identity and Character structure, character can be ascertained. Differ ...
''. Another Yamada novel, ''
In Search of a Distant Voice'', was translated and published in 2006 from a novel originally published in Japan in 1989. A third Yamada novel, , was translated into English and published in 2008.
Selected works
Television
* ''Kishibe no arubamu'' (1977)
* ''Omoide zukuri'' (1981)
* ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi'' (1983)
* ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi II'' (1985)
* ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi III'' (1991)
* ''Fuzoroi no ringotachi IV'' (1997)
Film
* ''
Final Take
is a 1986 Japanese drama film directed by Yoji Yamada. It was Japan's submission to the 59th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
* Kiyoshi Atsumi as Kihachi
* Kiichi Naka ...
'' (キネマの天地 Kinema no Tenchi) (1986)
* ''
Childhood Days'' (少年時代 Shōnen jidai) (1990)
Literature
* (1985)
* (1987)
* (1989)
References
External links
Yamada's siteTaichi Yamadaat J'Lit Books from Japan
1934 births
Living people
Japanese screenwriters
20th-century Japanese novelists
21st-century Japanese novelists
People from Taitō
Writers from Tokyo
Waseda University alumni
Japanese television writers
Yugawara, Kanagawa
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