# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minoru-betsuyaku
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:34:26.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minoru-betsuyaku"
name: "Minoru Betsuyaku"
slug: "minoru-betsuyaku"
description: "Minoru Betsuyaku  was one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists, associated with the Angura (\"underground\") theater movement in Japan. He won a name for himself as a writer in the \"nonsense\" genre and helped lay the foundations of the Japanese \"theater of the absurd.\" His works focused on the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust."
tagline: "Japanese playwright (1937–2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yxrnKbsG4k8Rv5XxhjhrZX4uBme.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-06-04"
deathDate: "2020-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.16
  momentum:             3.893967093235833
  historical:           7.750330666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/betsuyaku.fes"
    handle:    "betsuyaku.fes"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0079256/"
    handle:    "nm0079256"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Betsuyaku"
    title: "Minoru Betsuyaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Betsuyaku"
    title: "Minoru Betsuyaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Betsuyaku"
    title: "Minoru Betsuyaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Betsuyaku"
    title: "Minoru Betsuyaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A5%E5%BD%B9%E5%AE%9F"
    title: "別役実"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3_%E1%83%91%E1%83%94%E1%83%AA%E1%83%A3%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3"
    title: "მინორუ ბეცუიაკუ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%AB%E5%BD%B9%E5%AE%9E"
    title: "别役实"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1937517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118079"
    title: "Minoru Betsuyaku"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump