# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koichi-saito
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:21:36.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koichi-saito"
name: "Kōichi Saitō"
slug: "koichi-saito"
description: "Kōichi Saitō  was a Japanese film director and photographer."
tagline: "Japanese film director (1929-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/K%C5%8Dichi_Sait%C5%8D.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: "1929-02-03"
deathDate: "2009-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.02124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756908/"
    handle:    "nm0756908"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%DB%81%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "کوئیچی سائیتو (فلم ہدایت کار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "كويتشى سايتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dichi_Sait%C5%8D"
    title: "Kōichi Saitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dichi_Sait%C5%8D_(film_director)"
    title: "Kōichi Saitō (film director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dichi_Sait%C5%8D"
    title: "Kōichi Saitō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "کوایچی سایتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dichi_Sait%C5%8D_(r%C3%A9alisateur)"
    title: "Kōichi Saitō (réalisateur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%8E%E8%97%A4%E8%80%95%E4%B8%80"
    title: "斎藤耕一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096212"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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