# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryuhei-kitamura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:46:54.524Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ryuhei-kitamura"
name: "Ryuhei Kitamura"
slug: "ryuhei-kitamura"
description: "Ryuhei Kitamura  is a Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter. Kitamura relocated to Sydney, Australia at age 17 and attended a school for visual arts for two years. In 1997, Kitamura directed and produced the short film Down to Hell, which received a positive response from students, teachers, and an award which motivated Kitamura to seriously pursue a film career. He went on to independently finance and direct his feature film debut Versus (2000). The film proved to be successful within the film festival circuit and opened doors for Kitamura to direct more high-profile films such as Alive (2002), Sky High (2003), Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), The Midnight Meat Train (2008), No One Lives (2012), the live-action adaptation of Lupin the 3rd (2014), and several other Japanese and Hollywood productions."
tagline: "Japanese filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kitamura.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: "1969-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.04
  momentum:             5.912408759124086
  historical:           14.759912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/ryuhei_kitamura/"
    handle:    "ryuhei_kitamura"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457565/"
    handle:    "nm0457565"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ryuhei-kitamura.com"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Ryūhei Kitamura"
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    title: "Ryuhei Kitamura"
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    title: "Ryuhei Kitamura"
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    title: "Ryūhei Kitamura"
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    title: "Китамура, Рюхэй"
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    title: "Ryuhei Kitamura"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump