James Yoshimura is an American writer and producer, best known for his screenwriting work on the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street and the short-lived Fox series The Jury, for which he served as a co-creator.
11 Facts About James Yoshimura
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James Yoshimura co-wrote Homicide: The Movie, a made-for-television film that came out in 2000, after the series ended.
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James Yoshimura attended the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, where he had a playwriting class with classmate and future comedian Lewis Black.
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James Yoshimura is a friend of Tom Fontana and James Yoshimura credits Fontana with getting him work and teaching him how to write for television.
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James Yoshimura worked with Fontana on Homicide: Life on the Street, where James Yoshimura served as a writer and later producer for the duration of the show's seven seasons.
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Many of the scripts James Yoshimura wrote focused on one strong central story, rather than a large number of subplots.
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James Yoshimura was inspired to write it based on an episode of the HBO hidden-camera documentary show Taxicab Confessions, where a New York City detective discussed a similar real-life event.
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James Yoshimura co-wrote the script for Homicide: The Movie, the made-for-television film that came out after the series ended.
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James Yoshimura co-created and wrote for the 2004 Fox series The Jury, along with Homicide executive producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.
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In 2010, James Yoshimura returned to television as he joined Simon and Overmyer's series Treme as a writer and producer for its second season.
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James Yoshimura later went on to write for Homeland's third season.