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).

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.

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 (キネマの天地 Kinema no Tenchi) (1986)
• Childhood Days (少年時代 Shōnen jidai) (1990)

Literature[]

• I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While (飛ぶ夢をしばらく見ない, Tobu yume wo shibaraku minai) (1985)
• Strangers (異人たちとの夏, Ijintachito no natsu) (1987)
• In Search of a Distant Voice (遠くの声を捜して, Toku no koe wo sagashite) (1989)

References[]

External links[]

• Yamada's site (in English)
• Taichi Yamada at J'Lit Books from Japan (in English)

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