NAOKO YAMADA

Naoko Yamada

DIRECTING

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.