# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seitaro-kitayama
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:15:08.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seitaro-kitayama"
name: "Seitarō Kitayama"
slug: "seitaro-kitayama"
description: "Seitarō Kitayama  was an early Japanese animation director whose work includes the first examples of commercial production of anime. Kitayama was referred to as one of the fathers of anime by Yoshirō Irie, a researcher at Japan's National Film Center."
tagline: "Japanese anime director (1888-1945)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/KeitaroKitayama-taisho8.jpg/330px-KeitaroKitayama-taisho8.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1888-03-13"
deathDate: "1945-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.61602
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1802202/"
    handle:    "nm1802202"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E5%B1%B1%E6%B8%85%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "北山清太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "سيتارو كيتاياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitaro_Kitayama"
    title: "Seitaro Kitayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitar%C3%B3_Kitajama"
    title: "Seitaró Kitajama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitar%C5%8D_Kitayama"
    title: "Seitarō Kitayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitar%C5%8D_Kitayama"
    title: "Seitarō Kitayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitar%C5%8D_Kitayama"
    title: "Seitarō Kitayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitaro_Kitayama"
    title: "Seitaro Kitayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitar%C5%8D_Kitayama"
    title: "Seitarō Kitayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E5%B1%B1%E6%B8%85%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "北山清太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitar%C5%8D_Kitayama"
    title: "Seitarō Kitayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A3_%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B0"
    title: "เซตาโร คิตายามะ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitayama_Seitar%C5%8D"
    title: "Kitayama Seitarō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q390140"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1476008"
    title: "Seitaro Kitayama"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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