# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazunori-ito
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:08:37.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazunori-ito"
name: "Kazunori Itō"
slug: "kazunori-ito"
description: "Kazunori Itō  is a Japanese anime screenwriter and artist who is well known for his work in the .hack franchise and his writing for the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie. Itō supervised the writing for the novel, .hack//Another Birth which was written by his student, Miu Kawasaki. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear. Helen McCarthy in 500 Essential Anime Movies calls him \"one of the best screenwriters in anime\"."
tagline: "Japanese screenwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.248636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Ito_Kazunori"
    handle:    "Ito_Kazunori"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411872/"
    handle:    "nm0411872"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kyo-kan.net/k-ito"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "كازونوري ايتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazunori_It%C5%8D"
    title: "Kazunori Itō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "کازونوری ایتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazunori_It%C5%8D"
    title: "Kazunori Itō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E5%92%8C%E5%85%B8"
    title: "伊藤和典"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Ито, Кадзунори"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E5%92%8C%E5%85%B8"
    title: "伊藤和典"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3814183"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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