# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noriaki-yuasa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:17:50.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noriaki-yuasa"
name: "Noriaki Yuasa"
slug: "noriaki-yuasa"
description: "Noriaki Yuasa  was a Japanese director. Yuasa was the main director of the Japanese film series Gamera; he directed seven of the first eight films in the series while also providing special effects for one of them, and became known as the \"Father of Gamera\" . The series was created by Daiei Film Studios after the box office success of the Toho Godzilla series. Yuasa's post-Daiei career for television dramas marks him as one of the best hitmakers among the domestic television industry during the 1970s."
tagline: "Japanese film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Noriaki_Yuasa.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: "1933-09-28"
deathDate: "2004-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.237332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950633/"
    handle:    "nm0950633"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B9%AF%E6%B5%85%E6%86%B2%E6%98%8E"
    title: "湯浅憲明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "نورياكى يواسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Yuasa"
    title: "Noriaki Yuasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Yuasa"
    title: "Noriaki Yuasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "نوریاکی یواسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Yuasa"
    title: "Noriaki Yuasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Yuasa"
    title: "Noriaki Yuasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7051219"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89166"
    title: "Noriaki Yuasa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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