Masahiro Yamada (screenwriter)

Masahiro Yamada (山田 正弘, Yamada Masahiro; 26 February 1931 – 10 August 2005), real name Masahiro Umehara (梅原 正弘, Umehara Masahiro), was a Japanese screenwriter. He often worked with Yoshishige Yoshida and also penned scripts for Ultraman and other episodes in the Ultra series.

He died of lung cancer in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on 10 August 2005 at the age of 74.