# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kundo-koyama
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:06:03.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kundo-koyama"
name: "Kundō Koyama"
slug: "kundo-koyama"
description: "Kundō Koyama (小山薫堂) is a Japanese writer. He is best known for scripting the television series Iron Chef and the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film recipient Departures. Koyama has also worked under the pen name Udon Kumayakko, an anagram of his real name read backwards in Japanese."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kund%C5%8D_Koyama.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-06-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.36
  momentum:             1.264781491002571
  historical:           8.136810666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/kundo.koyama"
    handle:    "kundo.koyama"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2725830/"
    handle:    "nm2725830"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7c464658-142f-43be-96b3-8e6871bc5150"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "كوندو كوياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kund%C5%8D_Koyama"
    title: "Kundō Koyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kund%C5%8D_Koyama"
    title: "Kundō Koyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "کوندو کویاما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kund%C5%8D_Koyama"
    title: "Kundō Koyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%B1%B1%E8%96%AB%E5%A0%82"
    title: "小山薫堂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%B1%B1%E8%96%B0%E5%A0%82"
    title: "小山薰堂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10958806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/80862"
    title: "Kundo Koyama"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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