# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroshi-hirata
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:01.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroshi-hirata"
name: "Hiroshi Hirata"
slug: "hiroshi-hirata"
description: "Hiroshi Hirata  was a Japanese manga artist best known in the United States for the samurai manga series Satsuma Gishiden, which is published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics. Hirata's works belong to the subset of manga known as \"gekiga\", and his artwork has a realistic style comparable to Goseki Kojima's work on Lone Wolf and Cub. He was also known for his use of elaborate calligraphy for dialogue, which has been preserved in the American editions of his work."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1937-2021)"
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: "1937-02-09"
deathDate: "2021-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.13
  momentum:             1.272229822161423
  historical:           7.288992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4854160/"
    handle:    "nm4854160"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Hirata"
    title: "Hiroshi Hirata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "هيروشي هيراتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Hirata"
    title: "Hiroshi Hirata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Hirata"
    title: "Hiroshi Hirata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Hirata"
    title: "Hiroshi Hirata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Hirata"
    title: "Hiroshi Hirata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E7%94%B0%E5%BC%98%E5%8F%B2"
    title: "平田弘史"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3136353"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2455187"
    title: "Hiroshi Hirata"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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