# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroko-utsumi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:44.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroko-utsumi"
name: "Hiroko Utsumi"
slug: "hiroko-utsumi"
description: "Hiroko Utsumi  is a Japanese anime director, animator, storyboard artist, and manga artist. She is best known for her work with Kyoto Animation, particularly as the original director of Free!. After leaving Kyoto Animation's affiliate company Animation Do, she directed the anime adaptation of Banana Fish manga, and created and directed SK8 the Infinity with Bones. She is a graduate of the Osaka Municipal College of Design."
tagline: "Japanese anime director & animator"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           45.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.398889333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509550/"
    handle:    "nm2509550"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A7%E6%B5%B7%E7%B4%98%E5%AD%90"
    title: "內海紘子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Utsumi"
    title: "Hiroko Utsumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Utsumi"
    title: "Hiroko Utsumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "هیروکو اوتسومی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Utsumi"
    title: "Hiroko Utsumi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E6%B5%B7%E7%B4%98%E5%AD%90"
    title: "内海紘子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34633787"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2185604"
    title: "Hiroko Utsumi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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