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name: "Hiroaki Inoue"
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imdb_id: "nm0409279"
tmdb_id: 65439
roles: ["Producer"]
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average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:17:16.370939+00:00"
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# Hiroaki Inoue

## Identity

Hiroaki Inoue

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hiroaki-inoue
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hiroaki-inoue
- **IMDb ID:** nm0409279
- **TMDB ID:** 65439
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409279/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65439

Producer. Born in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Also known as:** 井上弘明
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409279/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65439

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Perfect Blue*](https://film.one/film/perfect-blue.md) (82)

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## Biography

Hiroaki Inoue (井上博明) is a Japanese anime producer. He began his career in animation production at Tezuka Productions in the early 1980s and later worked for Magic Bus and MK Company.

In 1984 he co-founded the studio Gainax, serving as vice president until 1989. He subsequently joined Anime International Company and established Oniro Co., Ltd., where he is representative director. Since 2014 he has been a professor in the Animation Department at Kibi International University.

Inoue produced *Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise* (1987), *Memories* (1995) and *Perfect Blue* (1998). His other credits include numerous entries in the *Tenchi Muyo!* franchise, *Gunbuster* and *Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040*.

*Sources: imdb.com, myanimelist.net, animenewsnetwork.com, anime-planet.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Perfect Blue* (1998), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/perfect-blue.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Winter Cicada* (2007), series, Producer
- *Angel's Feather* (2006), series, Producer
- *Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter* (2005), Producer
- *Yarima Queen* (2000), series, Producer
- *Blue Gender* (1999), series, Producer
- *A.D. Police* (1999), series, Producer
- *Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective* (1998), series, Producer
- *Catnapped!* (1998), Producer
- *Perfect Blue* (1998), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/perfect-blue.md)
- *Magic User's Club OVA* (1996), series, Producer
- *Memories* (1995), Producer
- *Phantom Quest Corp.* (1994), series, Producer
- *天地無用! 番外篇 宇宙刑事[ギャラクシーポリス]美星 銀河大冒険[スペースアドベンチャー]* (1994), series, Producer
- *Tenchi Muyou! The Night Before the Carnival* (1993), Producer
- *Moldiver* (1993), Producer
- *Tenchi Muyo!* (1992), series, Producer
- *Dragon Quest Fantasia Video* (1988), Producer
- *Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise* (1987), Producer
- *Galactic Patrol Lensman* (1984), series, Producer

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