# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/junpei-gomikawa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:21:30.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/junpei-gomikawa"
name: "Junpei Gomikawa"
slug: "junpei-gomikawa"
description: "Shigeru Kurita, known by his pen name Junpei Gomikawa, was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his 1958 World War II novel The Human Condition, which became a best seller. The novel became the basis for Masaki Kobayashi's film trilogy The Human Condition as well as a radio drama. His eighteen-volume novel Men and War, formed the basis for Satsuo Yamamoto's 1970–1973 film trilogy of the same name."
tagline: "Japanese novelist and writer (1916-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Asahi-Journal-1959-04-26-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-03-15"
deathDate: "1995-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.18862933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327113/"
    handle:    "nm0327113"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джунпей Гомикава"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gomikawa Jumpei"
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    title: "Ջունպեյ Գոմիկավա"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Jumpei Gomikawa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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