# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fuyuhiko-kitagawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:11:17.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fuyuhiko-kitagawa"
name: "Fuyuhiko Kitagawa"
slug: "fuyuhiko-kitagawa"
description: "Fuyuhiko Kitagawa  was a Japanese poet and film critic. His real name was Tadahiko Taguro . While born in Shiga Prefecture, he was raised in Manchukuo in China due to his father's work on the South Manchurian Railway, and then graduated from Tokyo University. He began publishing his own poetry in Manchukuo in 1924 and his work was influenced by that colonial context. His work was praised by Riichi Yokomitsu, and he became a prominent figure in modernist poetry in Japan, pursuing especially prose poetry. Culver describes Kitagawa as instrumental in the early history of Surrealism in Japan through his Japanese translation of Andre Breton's first Manifesto of Surrealism, which appeared in 1929 in Shi to shiron (詩と詩論), nos. 4–5. Kitagawa was also a well-known film critic, one who especially praised the work of Mansaku Itami, calling it a new, realistic \"prose cinema\" in opposition to the old \"poetic cinema\" of Sadao Yamanaka, Daisuke Itō, and others. He was a champion of neorealism in the postwar era."
tagline: "Japanese poet and film critic (1900–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KitagawaFuyuhiko.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900-07-03"
deathDate: "1990-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.813824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "فويوهيكو كيتاجاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitagawa_Fuyuhiko"
    title: "Kitagawa Fuyuhiko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuyuhiko_Kitagawa"
    title: "Fuyuhiko Kitagawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuyuhiko_Kitagawa"
    title: "Fuyuhiko Kitagawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E5%B7%9D%E5%86%AC%E5%BD%A6"
    title: "北川冬彦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552593"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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