# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryuzo-saki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:26:30.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ryuzo-saki"
name: "Ryūzō Saki"
slug: "ryuzo-saki"
description: "Ryūzō Saki  was a Japanese novelist and non-fiction writer, born in North Hamgyong, a province of what is now North Korea. He was interested in high-profile crimes in Japan and published a number of non-fiction books about Japanese crimes."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1937–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saki-ryuzo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-04-14"
deathDate: "2015-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.487804000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757197/"
    handle:    "nm0757197"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E6%9C%A8%E9%9A%86%E4%B8%89"
    title: "佐木隆三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABz%C5%8D_Saki"
    title: "Ryūzō Saki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABz%C5%8D_Saki"
    title: "Ryūzō Saki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABz%C5%8D_Saki"
    title: "Ryūzō Saki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABz%C5%8D_Saki"
    title: "Ryūzō Saki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABz%C5%8D_Saki"
    title: "Ryūzō Saki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E6%9C%A8%E9%9A%86%E4%B8%89"
    title: "佐木隆三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4310126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1993045"
    title: "Ryūzō Saki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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