# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuji-horii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:36:17.879Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuji-horii"
name: "Yuji Horii"
slug: "yuji-horii"
description: "Yuji Horii  is a Japanese author, video game designer, writer and director best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest franchise, supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, and The Portopia Serial Murder Case, released in 1983 as one of the first visual novel adventure games."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuji_Horii_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.39852533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/YujiHorii"
    handle:    "YujiHorii"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394684/"
    handle:    "nm0394684"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A0%80%E4%BA%95%E9%9B%84%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "堀井雄二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوجي هوري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Horii"
    title: "Yuji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Horii"
    title: "Yūji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Horii"
    title: "Yuji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Horii"
    title: "Yūji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Horii"
    title: "Yūji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Horii"
    title: "Yūji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A0%80%E4%BA%95%E9%9B%84%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "堀井雄二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%EB%A6%AC%EC%9D%B4_%EC%9C%A0%EC%A7%80"
    title: "호리이 유지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Horii"
    title: "Yuji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Horii"
    title: "Yūji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuuji_Horii"
    title: "Yuuji Horii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8%2C_%D0%AE%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8"
    title: "Хории, Юдзи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horii_Yuji"
    title: "Horii Yuji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A0%80%E4%BA%95%E9%9B%84%E4%BA%8C"
    title: "堀井雄二"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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