Hideo Yamamoto (draftsman)
Hideo Yamamoto ( Japanese 山 本 英 夫 , Yamamoto Hideo ; * 1968 in Saitama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .
Yamamoto published his first manga in 1989 with Sheep . In the 1990s he drew several predecessors to his manga series Ichi the Killer for various manga magazines , on which he worked from 1998 to 2001. The film adaptation of this manga caused a sensation and made Yamamoto famous. From 2003 he drew on his second internationally successful manga, Homunculus , for Big Comic Spirits .
Yamamoto's drawings, especially in his more recent works such as Homunculus, are very realistic and adapted to the Gekiga style. His manga usually contain an explicit depiction of violence.
Works
- Sheep , 1989, with Masahiko Takasho
- Nozokiya ( の ぞ き 屋 ), 1993
- Ichi ( イ チ ), 1993
- Shin Nozokiya ( 新 ・ の ぞ き 屋 ), 1994–1997
- Okama Hakusho ( お カ マ 白 書 ), 1996–1997
- Ichi the Killer (殺 し 屋 1 , Koroshiya 1 ), 1998-2001
- Enjo Kōsai Bokumetsu Undō ( 援助 交際 撲滅 運動 ), 1998, together with Tetsuya Koshiba
- Homunculus (ホ ム ン ク ル ス ), 2003–2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Hideo Yamamoto in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yamamoto, Hideo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 山 本 英 夫 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese mangaka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saitama Prefecture , Japan |