Naoko Yamada
Directing • AGE 41
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...
Filmography
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia
Other
2026
The Colors Within
Director
2024
Garden of Remembrance
Director
2022
Modern Love Tokyo
Storyboard Artist
2022
The Heike Story
Storyboard Artist
2022
Visual Prison
Opening/Ending Animation
2021
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Second Unit Director
2019
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
Key Animation
2019
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Opening/Ending Animation
2019
Tsurune
Director
2018
Liz and the Blue Bird
Second Unit Director
2018
Violet Evergarden
Storyboard Artist
2018
Sound! Euphonium The Movie: May the Melody Reach You!
Series Director
2017
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Director
2017
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Storyboard Artist
2016
Sound! Euphonium The Movie: Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band
Series Director
2016
Myriad Colors Phantom World
Storyboard Artist
2016
Sound! Euphonium
Series Director
2015
Tamako Love Story
Second Unit Director
2014
Beyond the Boundary
Director
2013
Free!
Opening/Ending Animation
2013
Tamako Market
Series Director
2013
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
Storyboard Artist
2012
Hyouka
Storyboard Artist
2012
K-ON! The Movie
Director
2011
Nichijou: My Ordinary Life
Director
2011
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
Second Unit Director
2010
The Last War of the Heavenliods and Akutoliods
Key Animation
2009
K-ON!
Series Director
2009
Clannad
Director
2007
Lucky Star
Key Animation
2007
Kanon
Key Animation
2006
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Director
2006
Munto 2: Beyond the Walls of Time
Animation
2005