# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kazuo-kamimura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:17:28.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kazuo-kamimura"
name: "Kazuo Kamimura"
slug: "kazuo-kamimura"
description: "Kazuo Kamimura  was a Japanese manga artist born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. He was best known as the illustrator of Lady Snowblood, which was adapted into film in 1973. Hitoshi Iwaaki, a manga artist was his assistant. He has been called \"the ukiyo-e master of Shōwa-era manga.\""
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1940-1986)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-03-07"
deathDate: "1986-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.04
  momentum:             0.3488372093023256
  historical:           9.013217333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0436655/"
    handle:    "nm0436655"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/847f5b4a-e43f-4ad0-8c6e-fa21a3521f2c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Kamimura"
    title: "Kazuo Kamimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Kamimura"
    title: "Kazuo Kamimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Kamimura"
    title: "Kazuo Kamimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Kamimura"
    title: "Kazuo Kamimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E6%9D%91%E4%B8%80%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "上村一夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%80%EB%AF%B8%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC_%EA%B0%80%EC%A6%88%EC%98%A4"
    title: "가미무라 가즈오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BE"
    title: "Камимура, Кадзуо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Kamimura"
    title: "Kazuo Kamimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q844082"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25469"
    title: "Kazuo Kamimura"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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