# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saeko-himuro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:33:59.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saeko-himuro"
name: "Saeko Himuro"
slug: "saeko-himuro"
description: "Saeko Himuro  was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and playwright. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was one of the most popular authors released under Shueisha's Cobalt Bunko imprint. She is best known outside Japan for I Can Hear the Sea, which was adapted into a movie by Studio Ghibli."
tagline: "Japanese novelist (1957–2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Saeko_Himuro_in_1986.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-01-11"
deathDate: "2008-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.805164
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1118378/"
    handle:    "nm1118378"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4e129f27-bc54-4a2b-bf76-5fc09b5c3eb4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "سايكو هيمورو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeko_Himuro"
    title: "Saeko Himuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeko_Himuro"
    title: "Saeko Himuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeko_Himuro"
    title: "Saeko Himuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeko_Himuro"
    title: "Saeko Himuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeko_Himuro"
    title: "Saeko Himuro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B7%E5%AE%A4%E5%86%B4%E5%AD%90"
    title: "氷室冴子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9E%88%EB%AC%B4%EB%A1%9C_%EC%82%AC%EC%97%90%EC%BD%94"
    title: "히무로 사에코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%B0%E5%AE%A4%E5%86%B4%E5%AD%90"
    title: "冰室冴子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460430"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93513"
    title: "Saeko Himuro"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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