---
name: "Haruo Okuno"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/haruo-okuno"
fi1m_id: "haruo-okuno"
imdb_id: "nm2972172"
tmdb_id: 2124763
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T19:51:45.407397+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Haruo Okuno

## Identity

Haruo Okuno

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/haruo-okuno
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** haruo-okuno
- **IMDb ID:** nm2972172
- **TMDB ID:** 2124763
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2972172/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2124763

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** 奥野 治男
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2972172/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2124763

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Haikyu!!*](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Haruo Okuno (奥野 治男) is a Japanese animator and animation director. He has worked on numerous television series and films, often in key animation and animation direction capacities.

Okuno served as episode director on the *Haikyu!!* series (2014), and as animation director on episodes of its first and second seasons as well as related specials. His other credits include key animation on *Your Name.* (2016) and *Bleach* (2004), and animation director roles on *Kaiju No. 8* (2024), *Tengoku Daimakyo* (2023) and *MFKZ* (2018).

*Sources: animenewsnetwork.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Haikyu!!* (2014), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *ChaO* (2025), Key Animation
- *Kaiju No. 8* (2024), series, Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation Director
- *Tengoku Daimakyo* (2023), series, Animation Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
- *Ensemble Stars!! -Road to Show--* (2022), Key Animation
- *Moriarty the Patriot* (2020), series, Animation Director, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Run with the Wind* (2018), series, Key Animation
- *MFKZ* (2018), Animation Director, Key Animation
- *Welcome to the Ballroom* (2017), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Your Name.* (2016), Key Animation — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/your-name.md)
- *Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie* (2015), Key Animation
- *Miss Hokusai* (2015), Key Animation
- *Space Brothers #0* (2014), Supervising Animation Director, Animation Director, Key Animation
- *Haikyu!!* (2014), series, Animation Director, Opening/Ending Animation, Key Animation, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)
- *Robotics;Notes* (2012), series, Key Animation
- *Space Brothers* (2012), series, Animation Director, Key Animation, Supervising Animation Director
- *Guilty Crown* (2011), series, Animation Director
- *Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison* (2011), Key Animation
- *Usagi Drop* (2011), series, Key Animation
- *Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse* (2010), Key Animation
- *Princess Jellyfish* (2010), series, Key Animation
- *Durarara!!* (2010), series, Key Animation, Animation Director
- *Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire* (2009), Key Animation
- *Natsume's Book of Friends* (2008), series, Key Animation, Animation Director
- *Spice and Wolf* (2008), series, Key Animation
- *Baccano!* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Darker than Black* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Shin Jeeg* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Gigantic Formula* (2007), series, Key Animation
- *Demon Prince Enma* (2006), series, Key Animation
- *Ray the Animation* (2006), series, Key Animation
- *Blood+* (2005), series, Key Animation
- *Black Cat* (2005), series, Key Animation
- *Kamichu!* (2005), series, Key Animation
- *Trinity Blood* (2005), series, Key Animation
- *Basilisk* (2005), series, Key Animation
- *Bleach* (2004), series, Key Animation

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