# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenji-yoshida
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:08.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenji-yoshida"
name: "Kenji Yoshida"
slug: "kenji-yoshida"
description: "Kenji Yoshida  is a Japanese anime producer, manga artist and illustrator best known as the co-founder of Tatsunoko Production. Yoshida is the younger brother of Tatsuo Yoshida and the older brother of Ippei Kuri. After Tatsuo's death in 1977, Yoshida replaced him as president and ran the company until Kuri succeeded him in 1987. On July 1, 2005, he and Kuri resigned from Tatsunoko Production when Takara merged with Tomy. With Kuri's death in July 2023, he became the last surviving Yoshida brother."
tagline: "Japanese film producer (1935-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SmallIMG_2224.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-01-01"
deathDate: "2003-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.362961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0948894/"
    handle:    "nm0948894"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Yoshida"
    title: "Kenji Yoshida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "كينجي يوشيدا (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%89_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "كينجى يوشيدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Yoshida"
    title: "Kenji Yoshida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "کنجی یوشیدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E7%94%B0%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "吉田健二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6389391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2902092"
    title: "Kenji Yoshida"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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