Yūji Aoki
Japanese manga artist
Yūji Aoki | |
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| Born | (1945-06-09)June 9, 1945 Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan |
| Died | September 5, 2003(2003-09-05) (aged 58) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Awards | 1992 Kodansha Manga Award (Naniwa Kin'yūdō) 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize |
Yūji Aoki (Japanese: 青木 雄二, Hepburn: Aoki Yūji, June 9, 1945 – September 5, 2003) was a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan.
He is best known for his 1990 debut manga Naniwa Kin'yūdō (ナニワ金融道, literally The Way of Osaka Financing, colloquially translated as The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark), for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga[1] and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence.
Takahiro Kochi was his assistant.
Adaptations
His novel Tōgenkyō no hito-bito was adapted into the 2002 Japanese comedy film Shangri-La directed by Takashi Miike.[2][3]
References
External links
- Yuuji Aoki at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Profile Archived 2008-09-16 at the Wayback Machine at The Ultimate Manga Page
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Kodansha Manga Award – General
- Karyūdo no Seiza by Machiko Satonaka (1982)
- P.S. Genki Desu, Shunpei by Fumi Saimon (1983)
- Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo (1984)
- Okashi na Futari by Jūzō Yamasaki (1985)
- Adolf by Osamu Tezuka and What's Michael? by Makoto Kobayashi (1986)
- Actor by Kaiji Kawaguchi (1987)
- Bonobono by Mikio Igarashi and Be-Bop High School by Kazuhiro Kiuchi (1988)
- Showa: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki (1989)
- The Silent Service by Kaiji Kawaguchi and Gorillaman by Harold Sakuishi (1990)
- Kachō Shima Kōsaku by Kenshi Hirokane and Waru by Jun Fukami (1991)
- Naniwa Kin'yūdō by Yūji Aoki (1992)
- Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki (1993)
- Tetsujin Ganma by Yasuhito Yamamoto (1994)
- Hanada Shōnen Shi by Makoto Isshiki (1995)
- The Ping Pong Club by Minoru Furuya (1996)
- Dragon Head by Minetarō Mochizuki (1997)
- Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto and Sōten Kōro by Hagin Yi and King Gonta (1998)
- Wangan Midnight by Michiharu Kusunoki (1999)
- Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue (2000)
- 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (2001)
- Zipang by Kaiji Kawaguchi (2002)
- Tensai Yanagisawa Kyōju no Seikatsu by Kazumi Yamashita (2003)
- Basilisk by Masaki Segawa (2004)
- Dragon Zakura by Norifusa Mita (2005)
- Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara (2006)
- Big Windup! by Asa Higuchi (2007)
- Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture by Masayuki Ishikawa (2008)
- Oh My Goddess! by Kōsuke Fujishima (2009)
- Giant Killing by Masaya Tsunamoto (2010)
- March Comes In like a Lion by Chica Umino and Space Brothers by Chūya Koyama (2011)
- Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura (2012)
- Gurazeni by Yūji Moritaka and Keiji Adachi and Prison School by Akira Hiramoto (2013)
- Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū by Haruko Kumota (2014)
- Knights of Sidonia by Tsutomu Nihei (2015)
- Kōnodori by Yū Suzunoki (2016)
- The Fable by Katsuhisa Minami (2017)
- Sanju Mariko by Yuki Ozawa and Fragile by Saburō Megumi and Bin Kusamizu (2018)
- What Did You Eat Yesterday? by Fumi Yoshinaga (2019)
- Blue Period by Tsubasa Yamaguchi (2020)
- Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito by Kiwa Irie (2021)
- Police in a Pod by Miko Yasu (2022)
- Skip and Loafer by Misaki Takamatsu (2023)
- Medalist by Tsurumaikada (2024)
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