, real name , was a Japanese screenwriter. He often worked with

Yoshishige Yoshida , also known as Kijū Yoshida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Life and career Graduating from the University of Tokyo, where he studied French literature, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and worked as an assistant ...

and also penned scripts for ''

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'' and other episodes in the

Ultra series ''Ultraman'', also known as the , is the collective name for all media produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad monsters. Debuting with '' Ultra Q'' and then ''Ultraman'' in 1966, the series is o ...

. He died of lung cancer in

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, on 10 August 2005 at the age of 74.

Selected filmography

* '' Eros Plus Massacre'' (1969)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamada, Masahiro 1931 births 2005 deaths Deaths from lung cancer in Japan 20th-century Japanese screenwriters