# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katsura-utamaru
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:03:54.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katsura-utamaru"
name: "Katsura Utamaru"
slug: "katsura-utamaru"
description: "Katsura Utamaru  was a Japanese rakugo comedian best known for hosting the Shōten comedy show on Nippon TV. He is known as a master of the Japanese comic art of rakugo, in which a single performer or storyteller appears on stage and tells comedic stories to the audience."
tagline: "Japanese comedian"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Katsura_Utamaru_1966_IMG_20190606_0012.jpg/330px-Katsura_Utamaru_1966_IMG_20190606_0012.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: "1936-08-14"
deathDate: "2018-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.64
  momentum:             12.70266019504461
  historical:           7.247766666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1572432/"
    handle:    "nm1572432"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11536817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsura_Utamaru"
    title: "Katsura Utamaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsura_Utamaru"
    title: "Katsura Utamaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%82%E6%AD%8C%E4%B8%B8"
    title: "桂歌丸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsura_Utamaru"
    title: "Katsura Utamaru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ec3b4218-28bc-4755-b98e-5cda9e9110b2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1253009"
    title: "Utamaru Katsura"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views