Hideo Yamamoto
Hideo Yamamoto is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Ichi the Killer, which was adapted into a live-action film by Takashi Miike in 2001, and Homunculus. Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and the human mind.
Hideo Yamamoto
- Name
- Hideo Yamamoto
- Born
- 23 June 1968
- Birthplace
- Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Known for
- Ichi the Killer Homunculus
- Occupation
- Manga artist
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Hideo Yamamoto is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Ichi the Killer, which was adapted into a live-action film by Takashi Miike in 2001, and Homunculus. Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and the human mind.
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Hideo Yamamoto (born 1968) is an illustrator, mangaka and screenwriter, of Japanese nationality. The illustrator was born in Tokorozawa.
Among the works are Homunculus, Ichi the Killer and Voyeur. Languages used include Japanese.
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Key facts
• Name — Hideo Yamamoto • Born — 23 June 1968 • Birthplace — Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan • Known for — Ichi the Killer Homunculus • Occupation — Manga artist
Biography
Biography
Hideo Yamamoto received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing SHEEP (written by Masahiko Takasho) for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.
Works
Works
• Sheep, 1989 • Okama Report, 1989–1991 • Voyeur (Nozokiya), 1992 • Another One Bites The Dust (illustrated by Koshiba Tetsuya) • Voyeurs, Inc. (Shin Nozokiya), 1993–1997 • Ichi the Killer, 1998–2001 • Homunculus, 2003–2011 • Yume Onna, 2013 (illustrated by Hiroya Oku) • Hikari-Man, 2014–2020 • Adam and Eve, 2015–2016 (illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami)
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Hideo Yamamoto was born in 1968 at Tokorozawa.
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