# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenzo-kitakata
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:56:28.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenzo-kitakata"
name: "Kenzo Kitakata"
slug: "kenzo-kitakata"
description: "Kenzo Kitakata  is a Japanese novelist, especially known for his hardboiled novels. He studied law at Chuo University in the early 1970s. He served as the 10th President of the Mystery Writers of Japan from 1997 to 2001."
tagline: "Japanese author, novelist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/v5bDzS3IhbDc0xAowK1cQyGGgOZ.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.33
  momentum:             0.1317440401505646
  historical:           6.597789333333334
  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/nm1199519/"
    handle:    "nm1199519"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%96%B9%E8%AC%99%E4%B8%89"
    title: "北方謙三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Kitakata"
    title: "Kenzo Kitakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenz%C5%8D_Kitakata"
    title: "Kenzō Kitakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Kitakata"
    title: "Kenzo Kitakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Kitakata"
    title: "Kenzo Kitakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%96%B9%E8%AC%99%E4%B8%89"
    title: "北方謙三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6392984"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1972720"
    title: "Kenzo Kitakata"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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