# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mariko-hayashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:35:19.527Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mariko-hayashi"
name: "Mariko Hayashi"
slug: "mariko-hayashi"
description: "Mariko Hayashi  is a Japanese writer and chairperson of the Nihon University board of directors. Her awards include the 94th Naoki Prize and the Japanese Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon. Her novels and essays have been widely adapted for television and film, including the 1997 film Fukigen na Kajitsu and the 2018 NHK taiga drama Segodon."
tagline: "Japanese writer and novelist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/sXRRQrnMCYCkLQEvUIim3M7WG15.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.817425333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1049071/"
    handle:    "nm1049071"
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%98%EC%95%BC%EC%8B%9C_%EB%A7%88%EB%A6%AC%EC%BD%94"
    title: "하야시 마리코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Hayashi"
    title: "Mariko Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Hayashi"
    title: "Mariko Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Hayashi"
    title: "Mariko Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Hayashi"
    title: "Mariko Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E7%9C%9F%E7%90%86%E5%AD%90"
    title: "林真理子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11533241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1974836"
    title: "Mariko Hayashi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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