# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masanari-nihei
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:24.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masanari-nihei"
name: "Masanari Nihei"
slug: "masanari-nihei"
description: "Masanari Nihei  was a Japanese actor. He played Mitsuhiro Ide in Ultraman, having won the role when originally cast actor Susumu Ishikawa left the production."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1940-2021)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qVxSEH1H1UfQhxfnEjIkCCORmHT.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1940-12-09"
deathDate: "2021-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.34
  momentum:             0.1261829652996845
  historical:           6.485973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629218/"
    handle:    "nm0629218"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%8C%E7%93%B6%E6%AD%A3%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "二瓶正也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%89"
    title: "ماسانارى نيهى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanari_Nihei"
    title: "Masanari Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanari_Nihei"
    title: "Masanari Nihei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%8C%E7%93%B6%E6%AD%A3%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "二瓶正也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%ED%97%A4%EC%9D%B4_%EB%A7%88%EC%82%AC%EB%82%98%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "니헤이 마사나리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11371722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1167986"
    title: "Masaya Nihei"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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