# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noburo-ofuji
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:05:45.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noburo-ofuji"
name: "Noburō Ōfuji"
slug: "noburo-ofuji"
description: "Noburō Ōfuji  was a Japanese film director and animator. One of the most notable auteurs of anime, he worked primarily with cutout and silhouette animation. He also made a number of films in traditional animation, using then-expensive, imported cels, while his earliest work known to have survived is a live-action/animated film. He trained under Jun'ichi Kōuchi before starting his own company. He is known for his employment of washi, especially the coloured and patterned Edo chiyogami, which gives his films a distinctively Japanese appearance. He was one of the first Japanese animators to earn international recognition for his work."
tagline: "Japanese film director and animator (1900–1961)"
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: "1900-06-01"
deathDate: "1961-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.083118666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959977/"
    handle:    "nm0959977"
sources:
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    title: "نوبورو اوفوجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نوبورو اوفوچى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobur%C5%8D_%C5%8Cfuji"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobur%C5%8D_%C5%8Cfuji"
    title: "Noburō Ōfuji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobur%C5%8D_%C5%8Cfuji"
    title: "Noburō Ōfuji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobur%C5%8D_%C5%8Cfuji"
    title: "Noburō Ōfuji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%97%A4%E4%BF%A1%E9%83%8E"
    title: "大藤信郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobur%C5%8D_%C5%8Cfuji"
    title: "Noburō Ōfuji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1154208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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