# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nizo-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:05:25.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nizo-yamamoto"
name: "Nizō Yamamoto"
slug: "nizo-yamamoto"
description: "Nizo Yamamoto was a Japanese art director. He began his career working on Future Boy Conan, but also worked on numerous films, most notably Studio Ghibli films such as Castle in the Sky, Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away. Additionally, he worked on Mamoru Hosoda's film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Makoto Shinkai's film Weathering with You. He died of stomach cancer on 19 August 2023, at the age of 70."
tagline: "Japanese art director (1953–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BE_%D0%AF%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1953-06-27"
deathDate: "2023-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.89
  momentum:             2
  historical:           8.970449333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945464/"
    handle:    "nm0945464"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E4%BA%8C%E4%B8%89"
    title: "山本二三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niz%C5%8D_Yamamoto"
    title: "Nizō Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizo_Yamamoto"
    title: "Nizo Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%88_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "نیزو یاماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niz%C5%8D_Yamamoto"
    title: "Nizō Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizo_Yamamoto"
    title: "Nizo Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E4%BA%8C%E4%B8%89"
    title: "山本二三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88%EB%AA%A8%ED%86%A0_%EB%8B%88%EC%A1%B0"
    title: "야마모토 니조"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%BE_%D0%AF%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Нідзо Ямамото"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5362711"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1009730"
    title: "Nizou Yamamoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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