# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-moritsugu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:59:35.131Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-moritsugu"
name: "Jon Moritsugu"
slug: "jon-moritsugu"
description: "Jon Moritsugu is an American cult-underground filmmaker and musician. His movies are satiric, protopunk deconstructions of popular genres and formats with scabrous and pointedly garish results. The New York Times describes them as \"funny, anarchic, provocative and exhilarating\". Influenced by the nihilism of Jean-Luc Godard and Guy Debord, Moritsugu's films are often defined by their \"lo-fi\" aesthetic and were initially shot on 16mm film for a gritty, visceral quality. He states that he often \"pay(s) less attention to narrative flow and storyline and put(s) more emphasis on sight, sound and spectacle\" to create a movie that is \"like a live punk/hardcore show.\" The works themselves are often absurdist comedies that feature actress, co-writer, stylist, and wife, Amy Davis. Perhaps best known for his cult film Mod Fuck Explosion, Moritsugu's films have been screened at Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam, Venice, USA Film Festival, New York Underground, Chicago Underground, MoMA, Guggenheim, Whitney and numerous other festivals and museums. In 2001 he received the Moving Image award from Creative Capital."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JONMORITSUGU.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.5
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.972897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605748/"
    handle:    "nm0605748"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jonmoritsugu.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چون موريتسوجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جۆن مۆریتسوگو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Moritsugu"
    title: "Jon Moritsugu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Moritsugu"
    title: "Jon Moritsugu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%84%E3%82%B0"
    title: "ジョン・モリツグ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%DA%AF%D9%88"
    title: "جون موریتسوگو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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