Yūji Aoki

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.

Yūji Aoki
Born(1945-06-09)June 9, 1945
Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan
DiedSeptember 5, 2003(2003-09-05) (aged 58)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationManga artist
Awards1992 Kodansha Manga Award (Naniwa Kin'yūdō)
1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize

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]

gollark: Really? *Really*?
gollark: (since that would actually be quite hard and cause ethical bees)
gollark: I thought it was quite obvious that I was joking about having secretly uploaded an infectious undetectable backdoor into the drone.
gollark: I thought you were doing drone delivery or something.
gollark: Isn't this a test drone which you presumably uploaded new code to lots?

References
  1. Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  2. https://www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/en/special_en/2008/film_show_vancouver.htm
  3. http://www.canadajapansociety.bc.ca/cgi/page.cgi?evtid=80&_id=8&date=2008-09-20
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