# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masahiro-sakurai
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:55:01.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masahiro-sakurai"
name: "Masahiro Sakurai"
slug: "masahiro-sakurai"
description: "Masahiro Sakurai  is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Masahiro_Sakurai_2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           78.29
  momentum:             13.61496350364964
  historical:           24.56678
  currentAttention:     61.88619774386198
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  38
  category: 101
totalFollowers: 665000
platforms:
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    handle:    "Sora_Sakurai"
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    handle:    "sora_masahiro_sakurai"
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    handle:    "nm0757340"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1DvRY5PyHHt3KN9ghunuw"
    handle:    "@sora_sakurai_en"
    followers: 665000
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masahiro Sakurai"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "사쿠라이 마사히로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masahiro Sakurai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ppl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakurai_Masahiro"
    title: "Sakurai Masahiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Sakurai"
    title: "Masahiro Sakurai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Сакураи, Масахиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masahiro Sakurai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masahiro Sakurai"
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    title: "Masahiro Sakurai"
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    title: "Masahiro Sakurai"
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    title: "Sakurai Masahiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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