# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eiichi-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:46:44.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eiichi-yamamoto"
name: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
slug: "eiichi-yamamoto"
description: "Eiichi Yamamoto  was a Japanese film director and screenwriter of anime. He is known for directing the Animerama film series conceived by Osamu Tezuka. Yamamoto directed ten films between 1962 and 1986. His 1973 film Kanashimi no Belladonna was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. Besides film work, Yamamoto also served as screenwriter on the anime television series Space Battleship Yamato and wrote the screenplay for its 1977 film adaptation."
tagline: "Japanese film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oTCZDZw7H2ZmZ9S4KJNMOhp9JP5.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1940-11-22"
deathDate: "2021-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.79096933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945412/"
    handle:    "nm0945412"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "أيشي ياماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايشى ياماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Yamamoto"
    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Yamamoto"
    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Yamamoto"
    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Yamamoto"
    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ایچی یاماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Yamamoto"
    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E6%9A%8E%E4%B8%80"
    title: "山本暎一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Yamamoto"
    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Ямамото, Эйити"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3049366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/239934"
    title: "Eiichi Yamamoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump