# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshifumi-kondo
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:36:26.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshifumi-kondo"
name: "Yoshifumi Kondō"
slug: "yoshifumi-kondo"
description: "Yoshifumi Kondō  was a Japanese animator who worked for Studio Ghibli in his last years. He was born in Gosen, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He worked as an animation director on Anne of Green Gables, Sherlock Hound, Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday and Princess Mononoke. Kondō directed the animated film Whisper of the Heart, and was expected to become one of the top directors at Studio Ghibli, alongside Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and to become their eventual successor."
tagline: "Japanese anime director (1950-1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Yoshifumi_kondo.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: "1950-03-31"
deathDate: "1998-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.62
  momentum:             0.4345493562231759
  historical:           13.36492666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0464911/"
    handle:    "nm0464911"
sources:
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Yoshifumi Kondo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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