# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/haruo-sotozaki
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:39:04.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/haruo-sotozaki"
name: "Haruo Sotozaki"
slug: "haruo-sotozaki"
description: "Haruo Sotozaki  is a Japanese anime and film director. He made his full directorial debut in 2004 with the anime adaptation of Ninja Nonsense. In 2019, he directed the anime adaptation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, as well as its film, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train in 2020, which has earned numerous awards."
tagline: "Japanese anime, film, & video game director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Haruo_Sotozaki_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.61685333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1417038/"
    handle:    "nm1417038"
sources:
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    title: "外崎春雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هاروؤو سوتوزاكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ھارو سۆتۆزاکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo_Sotozaki"
    title: "Haruo Sotozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo_Sotozaki"
    title: "Haruo Sotozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "هارو سوتوزاکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo_Sotozaki"
    title: "Haruo Sotozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo_Sotozaki"
    title: "Haruo Sotozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E5%B4%8E%E6%98%A5%E9%9B%84"
    title: "外崎春雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%86%8C%ED%86%A0%EC%9E%90%ED%82%A4_%ED%95%98%EB%A3%A8%EC%98%A4"
    title: "소토자키 하루오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сотодзаки, Харуо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo_Sotozaki"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28687612"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1283010"
    title: "Haruo Sotozaki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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