# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshihisa-kishimoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:48:17.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshihisa-kishimoto"
name: "Yoshihisa Kishimoto"
slug: "yoshihisa-kishimoto"
description: "Yoshihisa Kishimoto  was a Japanese video game developer known primarily for his involvement with Technos Japan Corp. He was best known for his work on beat 'em up games as the original creator of the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon game franchises, having worked on the original arcade and NES installments in both series. While not the first side-scrolling martial arts action games, as they were predated by Kung-Fu Master, they established the general template and conventions used by the beat 'em up genre since the late 1980s. Because of this, he has sometimes been referred to as the grandfather of the beat 'em up genre. Before his death, he was the President and Representative Director of the game company Plophet."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1961-09-17"
deathDate: "2026-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46
  momentum:             0.1724137931034483
  historical:           6.794929333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E6%9C%AC%E8%89%AF%E4%B9%85"
    title: "岸本良久"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "يوشيهيسا كيشيموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Kishimoto"
    title: "Yoshihisa Kishimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Kishimoto"
    title: "Yoshihisa Kishimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa_Kishimoto"
    title: "Yoshihisa Kishimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E6%9C%AC%E8%89%AF%E4%B9%85"
    title: "岸本良久"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%EC%8B%9C%EB%AA%A8%ED%86%A0_%EC%9A%94%EC%8B%9C%ED%9E%88%EC%82%AC"
    title: "기시모토 요시히사"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5966344"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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