# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/takashi-iizuka
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:41:43.223Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/takashi-iizuka"
name: "Takashi Iizuka"
slug: "takashi-iizuka"
description: "Takashi Iizuka  is a Japanese video game director, producer, designer and screenwriter. Since 2008, Iizuka has been the lead producer for the Sonic the Hedgehog series at Sega, as well as the head of Sonic Team, although he has been working on games in the Sonic series since 1992."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A_signing_with_mr_takashi_iizuka_(Cropped_2).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: "1970-03-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.39
  momentum:             13.27198185876162
  historical:           10.58463866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515485/"
    handle:    "nm0515485"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bf750a5f-81e4-45a2-b922-87d400a69475"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC)"
    title: "تاكاشي ايزوكا (مخرج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Iizuka_(game_designer)"
    title: "Takashi Iizuka (game designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7_(%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AD_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C)"
    title: "تاکاشی ایزوکا (طراح بازی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Iizuka"
    title: "Takashi Iizuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Iizuka"
    title: "Takashi Iizuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%AF%E5%A1%9A%E9%9A%86"
    title: "飯塚隆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%9D%B4%EC%A6%88%EC%B9%B4_%ED%83%80%EC%B9%B4%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "이이즈카 타카시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Иидзука, Такаси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Iizuka"
    title: "Takashi Iizuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%96_%D0%86%D1%96%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Такаші Іізука"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3514194"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3230412"
    title: "Takashi Iizuka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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