# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shiro-moritani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:22.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shiro-moritani"
name: "Shirō Moritani"
slug: "shiro-moritani"
description: "Shirō Moritani  was a film director and screenwriter from Japan. Born in Tokyo, he debuted as an assistant director in Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo. His film Mount Hakkoda won Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film in 1978."
tagline: "Film director (1931–1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Eiga-Hyoron-1967-February-5.png/330px-Eiga-Hyoron-1967-February-5.png"
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: "1931-09-28"
deathDate: "1984-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.097014666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0605743/"
    handle:    "nm0605743"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E8%B0%B7%E5%8F%B8%E9%83%8E"
    title: "森谷司郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "شيرو موريتاني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "شيرو موريتانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Moritani"
    title: "Shirō Moritani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "شیرو موریتانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Moritani"
    title: "Shirō Moritani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiro_Moritani"
    title: "Shiro Moritani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E8%B0%B7%E5%8F%B8%E9%83%8E"
    title: "森谷司郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3482378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33125"
    title: "Shirō Moritani"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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