# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasuji-murata
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:39.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasuji-murata"
name: "Yasuji Murata"
slug: "yasuji-murata"
description: "Yasuji Murata  was a pioneering animator who helped develop the art of anime in Japan. Studying the animation techniques of Sanae Yamamoto, Murata produced dozens of mostly educational films at the Yokohama Cinema studio featuring such characters as Momotarō and Norakuro. Along with Noburō Ōfuji, he was renowned as a master of cutout animation. Among his students were such animators as Yoshitarō Kataoka."
tagline: "Japanese animator (1896–1966)"
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: "1896-01-24"
deathDate: "1966-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.672282666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1672033/"
    handle:    "nm1672033"
sources:
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    title: "یاسوجی موراتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياسوغي موراتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "ياسوجى موراتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Murata"
    title: "Yasuji Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "یاسوجی موراتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Murata"
    title: "Yasuji Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Murata"
    title: "Yasuji Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Murata"
    title: "Yasuji Murata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E7%94%B0%E5%AE%89%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "村田安司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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