# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazuki-akane
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:48:37.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazuki-akane"
name: "Kazuki Akane"
slug: "kazuki-akane"
description: "Kazuki Akane  is a Japanese animation director. Until the early 2000s, he was a staff member of the anime studio Sunrise, where he collaborated with Shoji Kawamori to direct his most famous work, The Vision of Escaflowne. Since that time, he worked extensively with Satelight before going freelance once more to direct the Birdy the Mighty TV series, among other projects."
tagline: "Japanese anime director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kazuki_Akane_20100220_Japan_Expo_Sud_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.50990266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/akane2514af"
    handle:    "akane2514af"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015085/"
    handle:    "nm0015085"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E6%A0%B9%E5%92%8C%E6%A8%B9"
    title: "赤根和樹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كازوكى اكان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Akane"
    title: "Kazuki Akane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Akane"
    title: "Kazuki Akane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87"
    title: "کازوکی آکانه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Akane"
    title: "Kazuki Akane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Akane"
    title: "Kazuki Akane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E6%A0%B9%E5%92%8C%E6%A8%B9"
    title: "赤根和樹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EC%B9%B4%EB%84%A4_%EA%B0%80%EC%A6%88%ED%82%A4"
    title: "아카네 가즈키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8D%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Аканэ, Кадзуки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Akane"
    title: "Kazuki Akane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2571816"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/90695"
    title: "Kazuki Akane"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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