# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yurei-yanagi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:52:42.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yurei-yanagi"
name: "Yūrei Yanagi"
slug: "yurei-yanagi"
description: "Yūrei Yanagi  is a Japanese actor and tarento. He was born in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan. In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point. Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi again for the 1997 film Hana-bi. His most recent roles have been in horror films such as Ring, Ju-on and Ju-on 2."
tagline: "Japanese actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eDwCy1W4KHXdtcjxqLMOwXbzi1U.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-04-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.54
  momentum:             17.83371040723982
  historical:           6.578385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648764/"
    handle:    "nm0648764"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurei_Yanagi"
    title: "Yurei Yanagi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "يورى ياناجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABrei_Yanagi"
    title: "Yūrei Yanagi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABrei_Yanagi"
    title: "Yūrei Yanagi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABrei_Yanagi"
    title: "Yūrei Yanagi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B3%E6%86%82%E6%80%9C"
    title: "柳憂怜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1817586"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20311"
    title: "Yûrei Yanagi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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