# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minoru-inuzuka
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:37:29.979Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minoru-inuzuka"
name: "Minoru Inuzuka"
slug: "minoru-inuzuka"
description: "Minoru Inuzuka  was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Starting out as a screenwriter at Shochiku in 1924, he also participated in the production of Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness. When Chōjirō Hayashi became a jidaigeki star at Shochiku, Inuzuka directed many of his films. After World War II, Inuzuka returned to specializing in screenplays and was known for his scripts for the Zatoichi series. He published his autobiography in 2002, and died in 2007 at the age of 106. When he died, he was called the last surviving director to have directed a silent film in the 1920s. Inuzuka wrote scripts for over 150 films and directed over 50."
tagline: "Japanese film director and screenwriter (1901–2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1901-02-15"
deathDate: "2007-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.13
  momentum:             15.4270462633452
  historical:           6.343881333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409467/"
    handle:    "nm0409467"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8A%AC%E5%A1%9A%E7%A8%94"
    title: "犬塚稔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "مينورو اينوزوكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Inuzuka"
    title: "Minoru Inuzuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "مینورو اینوزوکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Inuzuka"
    title: "Minoru Inuzuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Inuzuka"
    title: "Minoru Inuzuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4204324"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2755075"
    title: "Minoru Inuzuka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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