# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zenzo-matsuyama
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:22:42.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zenzo-matsuyama"
name: "Zenzo Matsuyama"
slug: "zenzo-matsuyama"
description: "Zenzō Matsuyama  was a Japanese screenwriter and film director. He was born in Kobe and grew up in Yokohama. After leaving school, he began training to become a doctor but dropped out of medical school to take up a career in films. In 1948 he became an assistant director at Shochiku studios. With the support of Keisuke Kinoshita, he also began writing film scripts. His first filmed script was Kojo no tsuki, based on the song \"Kōjō no Tsuki\", filmed in 1954. In 1955 he married actress Hideko Takamine. He made his debut as a director with a film called Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku in 1961. He continued to work as a scriptwriter for films like Proof of the Man as well as a director. He also wrote the lyrics for a song \"Ippon no enpitsu\" for Hibari Misora."
tagline: "Japanese film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Takamine-Hideko-Matsuyama-Zenzo-1.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: "1925-04-03"
deathDate: "2016-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             13.18689591374526
  historical:           7.986690666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559695/"
    handle:    "nm0559695"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/025e5568-b415-474a-bef2-5b7800a67e83"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "زينزو ماتسوياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuyama_Zenz%C5%8D"
    title: "Matsuyama Zenzō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzo_Matsuyama"
    title: "Zenzo Matsuyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzo_Matsuyama"
    title: "Zenzo Matsuyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "زنزو ماتسویاما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenz%C5%8D_Matsuyama"
    title: "Zenzō Matsuyama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B1%B1%E5%96%84%E4%B8%89"
    title: "松山善三"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11529785"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1029319"
    title: "Zenzō Matsuyama"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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