# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenichi-endo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:01.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenichi-endo"
name: "Kenichi Endō"
slug: "kenichi-endo"
description: "Kenichi Endō  is a Japanese actor and writer. He also worked as a narrator for many documentaries, both on television and film. He is best known for his roles in Visitor Q (2001), Crows Zero (2007), Crows Zero 2 (2009), and The Raid 2: Berandal (2014). \nHe is also known for his yakuza roles, such as Joji Yazaki, the head of Soshu Family Syndicate and the main antagonist of Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2, and Hideaki Goto, the head of the Goto family, a powerful yakuza family from Japan and one of two mob bosses that control Jakarta in The Raid 2: Berandal."
tagline: "Japanese actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/5NyLtChKpQ0KLiYjZ3aSDylBIou.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: "1961-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.95
  momentum:             1.52967032967033
  historical:           10.93133466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/enken_enstower"
    handle:    "enken_enstower"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/enken.enstower/"
    handle:    "enken.enstower"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256861/"
    handle:    "nm0256861"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~ENS/"
sources:
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    title: "遠藤憲一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كينيتشي إندو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "كينيتشى اندو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_End%C5%8D"
    title: "Kenichi Endō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "کنیچی اندو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken'ichi_End%C5%8D"
    title: "Ken'ichi Endō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_Endo"
    title: "Kenichi Endo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%81%A0%E8%97%A4%E6%86%B2%E4%B8%80"
    title: "遠藤憲一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%94%EB%8F%84_%EC%BC%84%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98"
    title: "엔도 켄이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%94"
    title: "เค็นอิจิ เอ็นโด"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%81%A0%E8%97%A4%E6%86%B2%E4%B8%80"
    title: "遠藤憲一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1067530"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35642"
    title: "Kenichi Endo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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