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Masahiro Sakurai

1970 - Today

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Masahiro Sakurai (桜井 政博, Sakurai Masahiro; born August 3, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012. Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, Sakurai left the company in 2003 and in 2005 with his wife Michiko Sakurai (also ex-HAL Laboratory) founded their company Sora Ltd., under which they work on a freelance basis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masahiro Sakurai is the 28th most popular game designer (up from 30th in 2019), the 1,398th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,358th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 28 out of 77. Before him are Shinji Mikami, Naoto Ohshima, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Reiner Knizia, Carol Shaw, and Will Wright. After him are Yoko Taro, Yu Suzuki, Peter Molyneux, Kazunori Yamauchi, Roberta Williams, and Hideki Kamiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 183. Before him are Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Saulius Skvernelis, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Abelardo Fernández, Zack de la Rocha, and Daniel Lewin. After him are Yoko Taro, Karen Mulder, Regine Velasquez, Alexander Pschill, JR Bourne, and Jimmy Sheirgill.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 1,398 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshinobu Akao (1975), Toru Sano (1963), Masaru Furukawa (1936), Tokiharu Abe (1911), Kaoru Nagadome (1973), and Kaori Momoi (1951). After him are Masakazu Katsura (1962), Yoshihide Nishikawa (1978), Taki Inoue (1963), Gackt (1973), Takeshi Shimizu (1975), and Akio Kaminaga (1936).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Masahiro Sakurai ranks 13. Before him are Shigesato Itoi (1948), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Shinji Mikami (1965), Naoto Ohshima (1964), and Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974). After him are Yoko Taro (1970), Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Eiji Aonuma (1963), and Yuji Horii (1954).

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