Taichi Yamada

Taichi Yamada ( Japanese 山田 太 一 , Yamada Taichi , real name: Ishikawa Taichi , 石 坂 太 一 ; born June 6, 1934 in Taitō , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese writer and screenwriter.

Yamada studied Japanese Language and Literature at Waseda University's Faculty of Education . After graduating in 1958, he became assistant to director Keisuke Kinoshita at Shōchiku film studios. In 1965 he left Shōchiku and established himself as a freelance screenwriter.

In the following years he wrote screenplays for numerous television films and series, of which around thirty were awarded prizes, as well as screenplays for a dozen feature films, several novels and ten volumes of essays. In 1984 he received the Minister of Education award for the film Nagaraeba ( な が ら え ば ) and the Kikuchi Kan Prize , in 1985 the Mukuda Kuniko Prize for Nihon no Omokage ( 日本 の 面 影 ). In 1987 he was nominated for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Screenplay. The following year he received the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize . For the film Shōnen Jidai ( 少年 時代, such as "Childhood") he was awarded the Mainichi Art Prize in 1992 .

Works (selection)

• 1985 Tobu yume o shibaraku minai ( 飛 ぶ 夢 を し ば ら く 見 な い )
  • German: "I haven't dreamed of flying for a long time", translated by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Munich, 2008
• 1987 Ijintachi to no natsu ( 異 人 た ち と の 夏 )
  • German “Summer with Strangers”, translated by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Munich, 2007
• 1989 Toku no koe wo Sagashite
  • German. In search of a distant voice , translated by Ursula Gräfe and Kimiko Nakayama-Ziegler, Munich 2010. ISBN 9783442473977

Web link

• Homepage of Taichi Yamada (with catalog raisonné)

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• j.lit Books from Japan - Taichi Yamada
• Taichi Yamada in the Internet Movie Database (English)