Naoko Yamada
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1984-11-28 (41 years old)
Place of Birth
Kyoto, Japan
Also known As
やまだ なおこ
Ryu Ando
安堂隆
Yamada Naoko
山田 尚子
نائکو یامادا
Naoko Yamada
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 success...
Acting
2010
as 导演
Production
2011
as Director
2022
as Director
2018
as Second Unit Director
2011
as Second Unit Director
2016
2016
as Second Unit Director
2017
as Series Director
2017
as Second Unit Director
2019
as Key Animation
2019
as Second Unit Director
2014
as Second Unit Director
2018
as Storyboard Artist
2014
as Storyboard Artist
2016
as Storyboard Artist
2016
as Storyboard Artist
2017
as Storyboard Artist
2011
as Storyboard Artist
2010
as Second Unit Director
2014
as Director
2022
as Screenplay
2016
as Director
2024
as Director
2014
as Original Story
2018
as Director
2010
as Key Animation
2009
as Key Animation
2005
as Animation
2019
as Second Unit Director
2024
as Storyboard Artist
2024
as Second Unit Director
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