# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/issei-sagawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:38:05.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/issei-sagawa"
name: "Issei Sagawa"
slug: "issei-sagawa"
description: "Issei Sagawa  also known as Pang or the Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese lust murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981. He murdered Hartevelt and then mutilated, cannibalized, and performed necrophilia on her corpse over several days. In France, Sagawa was judged to be legally insane and ordered to be held indefinitely in a mental institution. After a few years, he was deported to Japan, where psychologists from Matsuzawa Hospital examined him and unanimously concluded that he was sane. He therefore had to be released from the hospital in 1986."
tagline: "Japanese author, murderer (1949-2022)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2GSVWy8O3mbWhO34izyXNByG23i.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-04-26"
deathDate: "2022-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.73
  momentum:             0.4210495558672276
  historical:           25.03454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756028/"
    handle:    "nm0756028"
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    title: "Сагава, Иссэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Issei Sagawa"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump