# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanjuro-arashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:40:43.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanjuro-arashi"
name: "Kanjūrō Arashi"
slug: "kanjuro-arashi"
description: "Kanjūrō Arashi  was a Japanese film actor. His nickname was \"Arakan.\" He is famous for playing the role of Kurama Tengu series. He entered the film industry in 1927 and came to fame playing Kurama Tengu, a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels. In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several hit films and appeared in yakuza films in the 1960s. He won Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor award for his role in The Profound Desire of the Gods."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1903–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kanj%C5%ABr%C5%8D_Arashi_in_Kurama_Tengu_(1942).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1903-12-08"
deathDate: "1980-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.337932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0033136/"
    handle:    "nm0033136"
sources:
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B9%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A3_%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B4"
    title: "คันจูโร อาราชิ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "كانچورو اراشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arashi_Kanj%C5%ABr%C5%8D"
    title: "Arashi Kanjūrō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanj%C5%ABr%C5%8D_Arashi"
    title: "Kanjūrō Arashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "کانجورو آراشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanj%C5%ABr%C5%8D_Arashi"
    title: "Kanjūrō Arashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B5%90%E5%AF%9B%E5%AF%BF%E9%83%8E"
    title: "嵐寛寿郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3192687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150321"
    title: "Kanjūrō Arashi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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