# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshiro-edamasa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:05:49.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshiro-edamasa"
name: "Yoshirō Edamasa"
slug: "yoshiro-edamasa"
description: "Yoshirō Edamasa  was a Japanese film director best known for Sakamoto Ryoma (1928) and The Great Buddha Arrival (1934). The latter film is one of the earliest tokusatsu movies, which is exemplified by kaiju movies. He was an early pioneer of Japanese cinema who trained many outstanding directors and cinematographers including Eiji Tsuburaya."
tagline: "Japanese film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoshiro_Edamasa.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1888-09-22"
deathDate: "1944-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.206696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1847635/"
    handle:    "nm1847635"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%88%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "یوشیرو ایڈاماسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Edamasa"
    title: "Yoshirō Edamasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "یوشیرو اداماسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Edamasa"
    title: "Yoshirō Edamasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Edamasa"
    title: "Yoshirō Edamasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%9D%E6%AD%A3%E7%BE%A9%E9%83%8E"
    title: "枝正義郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshir%C5%8D_Edamasa"
    title: "Yoshirō Edamasa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42392964"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1409795"
    title: "Yoshiro Edamasa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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