Hideo Yamamoto

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Japan

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  • 1988 - Tetsuya Chiba Award

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Biography

Hideo Yamamoto (山本英夫, Yamamoto Hideo) 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 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.

Artistic production

Comic Title Role Publisher Year Language
Homunculus #11 Author Panini Comics 0 Italian
Homunculus #12 Author Panini Comics 0 Italian
Homunculus #13 Author Panini Comics 0 Italian
Homunculus #14 Author Panini Comics 0 Italian
Homunculus #15 Author Panini Comics 0 Italian
Homunculus #10 Author Panini Comics 0 Italian
PULP Vol. 3 #5 Author VIZ Media LLC 1999 English
Ichi the Killer #1 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2013 Italian
Ichi the Killer #2 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2013 Italian
Ichi the Killer #3 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2013 Italian
Ichi the Killer #4 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2013 Italian
Ichi the Killer #5 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2013 Italian
Ichi the Killer #6 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2013 Italian
Ichi the Killer #7 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2013 Italian
Ichi the Killer #8 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2014 Italian
Ichi the Killer #9 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2014 Italian
Ichi the Killer #10 (ITA) Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2014 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #1 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2005 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #2 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2005 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #3 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2005 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #4 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2006 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #5 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2006 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #6 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2006 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #7 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2008 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #8 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2008 Italian
Homunculus - L'occhio dell'anima #9 Author Planet Manga (Panini Comics) 2008 Italian