# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenichi-matsuyama
# Generated: 2026-09-06T19:12:30.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenichi-matsuyama"
name: "Kenichi Matsuyama"
slug: "kenichi-matsuyama"
description: "Kenichi Matsuyama  is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name and L: Change the World in 2008. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, which was released in December 2010."
tagline: "Japanese actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matsuyama_Kenichi_from_%22Satoshi-_A_Move_for_Tomorrow%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_(33260944430).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1985-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.461780082184119
  historical:           26.04248533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  58
  category: 214
totalFollowers: 52500
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/momiji2022_official/"
    handle:    "momiji2022_official"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCusB6YBXDoiw97Ltz67xMqg"
    handle:    "@matsuyama.kenichi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump