Nationality Japanese Name Yuji Aoki | Occupation Manga artist Role Manga artist | |
Born June 9, 1945 ( 1945-06-09 ) Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan Awards 1992 Kodansha Manga Award (Naniwa Kin\'yudo)
1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Died September 5, 2003, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Movies Shangri-La, Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute Similar People Masaru Kaneko, Makoto Kitano, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Takashi Miike, Masao Adachi | ||
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 and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence.
Takahiro Kochi was his assistant.
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