Biography
Taichi Yamada is one of the most famous and highly respected writers in Japan. Winner of many awards for literary excellence from private organizations and from the Japanese government, he is best known for his scripts for TV dramas, but has also written many novels and plays.
Complete Filmography

The Last Town We Saw
2024
Novel, Original Story
The narrative centers on Taichi Tamiya, a television scriptwriter living in modern-day Tokyo with his family. Their ordinary lives are disrupted when ...

All of Us Strangers
2023
Novel
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhyt...
For the coming day
2005
Writer
Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife has s...

Fan of Hong Kong star
2002
Writer
The protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of a famous French shoe brand. The protagonist is obsess...

8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
1992
Original Film Writer
After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific exper...

Winter Ever Since
1991
Writer
Original drama special written by Taichi Yamada about the sadness and resilience of human beings through a man and his wife's best friend who become a...

A Paucity of Flying Dreams
1990
Novel
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They m...

Takeshi: Childhood Days
1990
Writer
A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay wi...

Until Spring Comes
1989
Writer
Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her h...

The Discarnates
1988
Novel
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, ...

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
Writer
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. Afte...

When Winter Comes
1985
Writer
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his death...

Children of Nagasaki
1983
Writer
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

When We are Old
1982
Writer
An old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move together. A few days after moving, he decides to go back to se...

Summer Days Across the River
1973
Writer
Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.

Deeper Than Blue
1973
Original Story
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her ...

Love and Death
1971
Screenplay
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the circumsta...
Once a Rainy Day
1966
Screenplay
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Sing, Young People
1963
Writer
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Seikurabe
1962
Screenplay
Japanese drama film.