![]() In the same year, he got Newcomer Award at 2004 Elan d'or Awards and was appointed as first image character of newly reformed Tokyo Metro. Yamada continued his success in leading role with Socrates in Love as Sakutaro Matsumoto the year after. He was chosen to portray Shindo through audition among hundreds of young actors. His breakout was 2003 TV drama about men synchronized swimming Water Boys, taking the lead role as Kankuro Shindo. ![]() He made his debut in 1999 by starring in TV drama Psychometrer Eiji 2. Yamada graduated from a middle school in Tokyo but did not go to high school to focus on his acting career. After being scouted, in his third year of middle school he moved from Kagoshima to Tokyo. Yamada got scouted after shopping with his sisters in front of Laforet Harajuku. ![]() He is the youngest of three siblings with two older sisters, Kaori and Sayuki who worked as models for teen magazines in late 1990s. Yamada was born in Naha, Okinawa but raised in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima until the age of 15.
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