# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katsuhito-ishii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:24.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katsuhito-ishii"
name: "Katsuhito Ishii"
slug: "katsuhito-ishii"
description: "Katsuhito Ishii  is a Japanese film director best known for directing The Taste of Tea (2004), Funky Forest (2005), and Smuggler (2011)."
tagline: "Japanese film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/desHSa8vCjuWtEFmKs0zjXQHL32.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.49288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411002/"
    handle:    "nm0411002"
sources:
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    title: "石井克人"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كاتسوهيتو إيشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "كاتسوهيتو ايشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhito_Ishii"
    title: "Katsuhito Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhito_Ishii"
    title: "Katsuhito Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhito_Ishii"
    title: "Katsuhito Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhito_Ishii"
    title: "Katsuhito Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "کاتسوهیتو ایشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhito_Ishii"
    title: "Katsuhito Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhito_Ishii"
    title: "Katsuhito Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1646217"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107668"
    title: "Katsuhito Ishii"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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