# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kotaro-isaka
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:32.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kotaro-isaka"
name: "Kōtarō Isaka"
slug: "kotaro-isaka"
description: "Kōtarō Isaka  is a Japanese author of mystery fiction, best known for his Hitman novel/manga series, including Maoh: Juvenile Remix (2007–2009), the first of which, 3 Assassins, was adapted as a Japanese feature film, Grasshopper (2015), and the second of which, Maria Beetle, was adapted as an American feature film, Bullet Train (2022)."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vKBBFNtqgbV8MS8hFDnIC6lvf1w.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.52
  momentum:             10
  historical:           11.962952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2157655/"
    handle:    "nm2157655"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E5%9D%82%E5%B9%B8%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "كوتارو إيساكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Isaka"
    title: "Kōtarō Isaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Isaka"
    title: "Kōtarō Isaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "کوتارو ایساکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Isaka"
    title: "Kōtarō Isaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Isaka"
    title: "Kōtarō Isaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E5%9D%82%E5%B9%B8%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "伊坂幸太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%82%AC%EC%B9%B4_%EA%B3%A0%ED%83%80%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "이사카 고타로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E5%9D%82%E5%B9%B8%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "伊坂幸太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q854737"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1112602"
    title: "Kotaro Isaka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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