Hideo Yamamoto

is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Ichi the Killer, which was adapted into a live-action film by Takashi Miike in 2001, and Homunculus.

Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and the human mind.

Biography Hideo Yamamoto received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing SHEEP (written by Masahiko Takasho) for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.

Works Sheep, 1989 Okama Report, 1989–1991 Voyeur (Nozokiya), 1992 Another One Bites The Dust (illustrated by Koshiba Tetsuya) Voyeurs, Inc. (Shin Nozokiya), 1993–1997 Ichi the Killer, 1998–2001 Homunculus, 2003–2011 Yume Onna, 2013 (illustrated by Hiroya Oku) Hikari-Man, 2014–2020 Adam and Eve, 2015–2016 (illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami)