# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoichi-higashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:29:41.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoichi-higashi"
name: "Yōichi Higashi"
slug: "yoichi-higashi"
description: "Yōichi Higashi  was a Japanese film director. He began his career working on documentaries at Iwanami Productions but, after going independent, turned to fiction film. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for Yasashii Nipponjin in 1971, and then the award for Best Director at the 17th Hochi Film Awards for The River with No Bridge."
tagline: "Film director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Cropped_Photo_of_Y%C5%8Dichi_Higashi.jpg"
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: "1934-11-14"
deathDate: "2026-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.06
  momentum:             3.237616654702082
  historical:           9.466384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044466/"
    handle:    "nm0044466"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/946818"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "يويشي هيغاشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "يويشى هيجاشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Higashi"
    title: "Yōichi Higashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Higashi"
    title: "Yōichi Higashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%D9%87%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "یوایچی هیگاشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Higashi"
    title: "Yōichi Higashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E9%99%BD%E4%B8%80"
    title: "東陽一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9E%88%EA%B0%80%EC%8B%9C_%EC%9A%94%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98"
    title: "히가시 요이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7a3576b9-ef8f-4eeb-9435-fe9b25095038"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711804"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/237306"
    title: "Yōichi Higashi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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