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name: "Hirotaka Endo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hirotaka-endo"
fi1m_id: "hirotaka-endo"
imdb_id: "nm2719611"
tmdb_id: 2682373
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T19:51:41.165048+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."
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# Hirotaka Endo

## Identity

Hirotaka Endo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hirotaka-endo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hirotaka-endo
- **IMDb ID:** nm2719611
- **TMDB ID:** 2682373
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2719611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2682373

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** Hirotaka Endō, Hirotaka Endou, 遠藤 広隆
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2719611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2682373

## Streaming the US now

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

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

## Biography

Hirotaka Endo, also credited as Hirotaka Endou or 遠藤 広隆, is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist. He began his career at Anime International Company (AIC).

He has worked as an episode director on series including *Samurai Champloo* (2004), *GANTZ* (2004), *Trinity Blood* (2005), *Last Exile* (2003), *Special A* (2008), *Psycho-Pass* (2012), and *Haikyu!!* (2014). Endo directed episodes of *Phi Brain: Puzzle of God* (2011–2014) and contributed storyboards and second unit direction to films and series such as *King of Thorn* (2010), *Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn* (2010), *Genocidal Organ* (2017), and *Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3* (2019).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Moriarty the Patriot* (2020), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate* (2019), Storyboard Artist, Second Unit Director
- *The Ancient Magus' Bride* (2017), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Genocidal Organ* (2017), Second Unit Director
- *Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation* (2015), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Gundam Reconguista in G* (2014), series, Director
- *Haikyu!!* (2014), series, Director, Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)
- *Psycho-Pass* (2012), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Phi Brain: Puzzle of God* (2011), series, Director
- *Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn III - The Ghost of Laplace* (2011), Director
- *King of Thorn* (2010), Second Unit Director
- *Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn* (2010), series, Director
- *Blassreiter* (2008), series, Director
- *Trinity Blood* (2005), series, Director
- *Samurai Champloo* (2004), series, Director
- *GANTZ* (2004), series, Director
- *Peacemaker Kurogane* (2003), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Last Exile* (2003), series, Director
- *Petite Princess Yucie* (2002), series, Director

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