Taichi Yamada
Taichi Yamada (山田 太一 Yamada Taichi, b. June 6, 1934) is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. His real name is Taichi Ishizaka (石坂 太一 Ishizaka Taichi).
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[edit] 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.[1] 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.[1] He has also written scripts for film and the stage.
As a novelist, his novel Ijintachi to no natsu (異人たちとの夏), published in 1987, won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.[2] It was translated into English, in 2004, as Strangers. 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, I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While (飛ぶ夢をしばらく見ない Tobu yume o shibaraku minai), was translated into English and published in 2008.
[edit] Selected works
[edit] 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)
[edit] Film
- Final Take (キネマの天地 Kinema no Tenchi) (1986)
- Childhood Days (少年時代 Shōnen jidai) (1990)
[edit] Literature
- Strangers (異人たちとの夏) (1987)
- In Search of a Distant Voice (1989)
- I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Kyakuhon, shōsetsuka Yamada Taiichi". Chūnichi shinbun. 9 September 2011. http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/shizuoka/ladies/list/CK2011090902000134.html. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ^ "Yamamoto Shūgorō shō: Kako no jushō sakuhin". Shinchōsha. http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/yamamotosho/archive.html. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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