# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kinuyo-yamashita
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:15:45.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kinuyo-yamashita"
name: "Kinuyo Yamashita"
slug: "kinuyo-yamashita"
description: "Kinuyo Yamashita  is a Japanese composer and musician known for her contributions in video games. Her best known soundtrack is Konami's Castlevania, which was also her debut work. She was co-credited with Satoe Terashima under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game. This pseudonym was a pun of the name James Bernard, the composer of the 1958 film Dracula."
tagline: "Japanese video game composer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1965-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.777973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KinuyoYamashita"
    handle:    "KinuyoYamashita"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/kinuyo.music"
    handle:    "kinuyo.music"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2149014/"
    handle:    "nm2149014"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://yamako.ciao.jp/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1348633"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "كينويو ياماشيتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinuyo_Yamashita"
    title: "Kinuyo Yamashita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinuyo_Yamashita"
    title: "Kinuyo Yamashita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinuyo_Yamashita"
    title: "Kinuyo Yamashita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E7%B5%B9%E4%BB%A3"
    title: "山下絹代"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinuyo_Yamashita"
    title: "Kinuyo Yamashita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%91"
    title: "Ямасита, Кинуё"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E7%B5%B9%E4%BB%A3"
    title: "山下絹代"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/58b55fb7-ca98-4657-bde3-e403b3ebd93b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2042829"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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