# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tetsuji-takechi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:53:40.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tetsuji-takechi"
name: "Tetsuji Takechi"
slug: "tetsuji-takechi"
description: "Tetsuji Takechi  was a Japanese theatrical and film director, critic, and author. First coming to prominence for his theatrical criticism, in the 1940s and 1950s he produced influential and popular experimental kabuki plays. Beginning in the mid-1950s, he continued his innovative theatrical work in noh, kyōgen and modern theater. In late 1956 and early 1957 he hosted a popular TV program, The Tetsuji Takechi Hour, which featured his reinterpretations of Japanese stage classics."
tagline: "Japanese theatrical and film director, critic and author (1912-1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tetsuji_Takechi_01.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: "1912-12-10"
deathDate: "1988-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.2684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847463/"
    handle:    "nm0847463"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E6%99%BA%E9%93%81%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "武智铁二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تيتسوچى تاكيكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuji_Takechi"
    title: "Tetsuji Takechi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%DA%86%DB%8C"
    title: "تتسوجی تاکچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuji_Takechi"
    title: "Tetsuji Takechi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuji_Takechi"
    title: "Tetsuji Takechi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E6%99%BA%E9%89%84%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "武智鉄二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7706872"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1028527"
    title: "Tetsuji Takechi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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