# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoji-kuri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:41:08.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoji-kuri"
name: "Yōji Kuri"
slug: "yoji-kuri"
description: "Yōji Kuri  was a Japanese cartoonist and independent filmmaker. An influential figure in Japanese independent animation, he was the unofficial leader and most prolific of the \"Animation Association of Three\"  collective who kick-started the renaissance of modern-styled, independently made, adult-aimed animation in early 1960s Japan. He is known internationally for the very black comedy of his films, with the typically naïve style of his cartooning often belying the surreal, obscene and disturbing situations they depict ; this made them a favourite among the fervently counter-cultural audiences, which included such filmmakers as René Laloux, of the first few years of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and in a 1967 publication he was considered to be \"the most significant\" and \"the only Japanese animator whose work is known in the West\". He is also known in Japan for his comics, a collection of which earned him the 1958 Bungeishunjū Manga Award. Though he was retired from filmmaking, he continued to illustrate and teach animation at Laputa Art Animation School . In 2012, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film, better known as Animafest Zagreb."
tagline: "Japanese animator"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jtKgr3syzvP2ngSGC1fwltMMCXn.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: "1928-04-09"
deathDate: "2024-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.102306666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/yojikuri"
    handle:    "yojikuri"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/yoji.kuri"
    handle:    "yoji.kuri"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475696/"
    handle:    "nm0475696"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dji_Kuri"
    title: "Yōji Kuri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%86%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "ياوچى كورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dji_Kuri"
    title: "Yōji Kuri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoji_Kuri"
    title: "Yoji Kuri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "یوجی کوری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dji_Kuri"
    title: "Yōji Kuri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dji_Kuri"
    title: "Yōji Kuri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%85%E9%87%8C%E6%B4%8B%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "久里洋二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1118275"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1126162"
    title: "Yôji Kuri"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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