is a Japanese screenwriter 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. 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. 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, , 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 (1985) (1987) (1989) References External links Yamada's site Taichi Yamada at J'Lit Books from Japan 1934 births Living people Japanese screenwriters 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists People from Tokyo Waseda University alumni Japanese television writers Yugawara, Kanagawa