Naoko Yamada

Naoko Yamada

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1984-11-28 (39 years old)

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Biography

Naoko Yamada (山田 尚子) is a Japanese animator, television and film director. Working at Kyoto Animation, she directed the K-On! and Tamako Market anime series, and the anime films A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird.


Yamada intended to work in film after university, but she decided to join Kyoto Animation after seeing an advertisement. Her first assignment at KyoAni was drawing inbetween frames for Inuyasha. She was eventually promoted to a key animator for Air.


After working as an episode director of Clannad, she was asked to make her chief directorial debut with K-On!, an adaptation of a slice-of-life manga. The series was very successful, spurring a second season and a film. In 2013, she directed Tamako Market, and followed it with the film Tamako Love Story in 2014. For Tamako Love Story, she was awarded the New Face Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival. She storyboarded the entire film herself, and also wrote the lyrics for the opening theme song, Everybody Loves Somebody. Yamada's next project was the feature film A Silent Voice, an adaptation of the manga of the same name, that reflected on elements of bullying and physical impairment in Japan. The film opened at #2 in the Japanese Box Office and grossed a total of ¥2.3 billion, the 19th highest-grossing film in Japan in 2016. The film also received multiple award nominations, including Best Animation Film in the Mainichi Film Awards and the Excellent Animation of the Year in the Japan Academy Prize.


For Yamada, the most important part of being a director is to observe people. She describes herself as a "method" director, emphasizing the minds of the characters.


On July 18, 2019, a man started a fire at the main studio of Kyoto Animation, killing 36 of Yamada's colleagues and wounding 33 others. Yamada was reported not to have been hurt in the fire. In 2020, Yamada left KyoAni to join Science SARU, where she directed 2021's The Heike Story.


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Filmography

all 32

Director 25

TV Shows 18

Movies 14

Director
Kimi no Iro

Kimi no Iro (2024)

Movie
Screenplay / Director
Garden of Remembrance

Garden of Remembrance (2022)

Movie
Storyboard Artist / Director
Modern Love Tokyo

Modern Love Tokyo (2022)

TV
Opening/Ending Animation / Series Director / Storyboard Artist / Series Director / Director
The Heike Story

The Heike Story (2022)

TV
Opening/Ending Animation
Visual Prison

Visual Prison (2021)

TV
Director
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019)

Movie
Key Animation / Second Unit Director
Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day

Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)

Movie
Opening/Ending Animation
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)

TV
Storyboard Artist / Director
Tsurune

Tsurune (2018)

TV
Director / Storyboard Artist / Second Unit Director
Liz and the Blue Bird

Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)

Movie
3.75
Storyboard Artist
Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden (2018)

TV
Storyboard Artist / Second Unit Director / Series Director
Sound! Euphonium the Movie – May the Melody Reach You!

Sound! Euphonium the Movie – May the Melody Reach You! (2017)

Movie
Storyboard Artist / Director
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (2017)

TV
8
Director / Storyboard Artist
A Silent Voice: The Movie

A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)

Movie
7.42
Storyboard Artist / Second Unit Director / Series Director
Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band

Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band (2016)

Movie
Storyboard Artist
Myriad Colors Phantom World

Myriad Colors Phantom World (2016)

TV
6
Storyboard Artist / Director / Series Director
Sound! Euphonium

Sound! Euphonium (2015)

TV
Director / Storyboard Artist / Second Unit Director
Tamako Love Story

Tamako Love Story (2014)

Movie
8
Director
Dera-chan of the Southern Islands

Dera-chan of the Southern Islands (2014)

Movie
Opening/Ending Animation / Storyboard Artist / Director
Beyond the Boundary

Beyond the Boundary (2013)

TV
5.67
Storyboard Artist / Director / Opening/Ending Animation
Free!

Free! (2013)

TV
Series Director
Tamako Market

Tamako Market (2013)

TV
Storyboard Artist / Director
Hyouka

Hyouka (2012)

TV
6
Director
K-On! The Movie

K-On! The Movie (2011)

Movie
Opening/Ending Animation / Storyboard Artist / Director
Nichijou: My Ordinary Life

Nichijou: My Ordinary Life (2011)

TV
6
Key Animation / Second Unit Director
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)

Movie
6
Key Animation
The Last War of the Heavenliods and Akutoliods

The Last War of the Heavenliods and Akutoliods (2009)

Movie
Series Director / Storyboard Artist / Series Director / Director / Opening/Ending Animation / Key Animation
K-ON!

K-ON! (2009)

TV
Storyboard Artist / Director / Assistant Director / Key Animation
Clannad

Clannad (2007)

TV
6
Key Animation
Kanon

Kanon (2006)

TV
6
Key Animation / Director
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006)

TV
Animation
Munto 2: Beyond the Walls of Time

Munto 2: Beyond the Walls of Time (2005)

Movie

Ratings

Average 7.21
Based on 231 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
2005
2011
2016
2014
2022
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Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1984-11-28 (39 years old)

Birth Place
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Citizenships
Japan

Also Known As
山田尚子, やまだ なおこ, Ryu Ando, 安堂隆


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