# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroyuki-kitazume
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:24:06.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroyuki-kitazume"
name: "Hiroyuki Kitazume"
slug: "hiroyuki-kitazume"
description: "Hiroyuki Kitazume  is a Japanese animator, manga artist and illustrator. He is often noted for his work with anime studio Sunrise. Helen McCarthy in 500 Essential Anime Movies commented that he \"shot to fame\" in 1985 as an animation director on the Zeta Gundam TV series."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/hZOicW7WCnfYc84l8KXYIAw8zEP.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: "1961-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.401589333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457617/"
    handle:    "nm0457617"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E7%88%AA%E5%AE%8F%E5%B9%B8"
    title: "北爪宏幸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "هيرويوكى كيتازوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Kitazume"
    title: "Hiroyuki Kitazume"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%85%D9%87"
    title: "هیرویوکی کیتازومه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Kitazume"
    title: "Hiroyuki Kitazume"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E7%88%AA%E5%AE%8F%E5%B9%B8"
    title: "北爪宏幸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1095991"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110679"
    title: "Hiroyuki Kitazume"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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