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name: "Nozomu Takahashi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nozomu-takahashi"
fi1m_id: "nozomu-takahashi"
imdb_id: "nm0847182"
tmdb_id: 78376
wikidata_id: "Q17160580"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "4 October 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-04T04:34:21.749269+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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# Nozomu Takahashi

## Identity

Nozomu Takahashi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nozomu-takahashi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nozomu-takahashi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0847182
- **TMDB ID:** 78376
- **Wikidata ID:** Q17160580
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17160580, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847182/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78376

Producer. Born 4 October 1960 in Tokyo.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 4 October 1960, Tokyo
- **Active:** 1992–2012
- **Also known as:** Mozomu Takahashi, 高桥望
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as producer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2000s 83 (3), 2010s 81 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 77 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 5, Fantasy 4, Adventure 2, Family 2, Drama 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $629m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17160580, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847182/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78376

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Summer Wars*](https://film.one/film/summer-wars.md) (77)

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## Biography

Nozomu Takahashi is a Japanese animation producer and production manager. Born on 4 October 1960 in Tokyo, he began his career in the late 1980s with assistant and production roles on anime projects.

He worked extensively in production management at Studio Ghibli on films including *Only Yesterday* (1991), *Porco Rosso* (1992), *Ocean Waves* (1993), *Pom Poko* (1994), *Spirited Away* (2001) and *Howl's Moving Castle* (2004). As a producer he is credited on *The Cat Returns* (2002), *Summer Wars* (2009), *Wolf Children* (2012), *The Boy and the Beast* (2015), *Mirai* (2018) and *Belle* (2021), among others, often in collaboration with directors such as Mamoru Hosoda and studios including Madhouse and Nippon Television.

*Sources: imdb.com, myanimelist.net, ja.wikipedia.org, anidb.net.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Wolf Children* (2012), Fi1m 81, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md)
- *Summer Wars* (2009), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/summer-wars.md)
- *Howl's Moving Castle* (2004), Fi1m 81, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/howls-moving-castle.md)
- *Spirited Away* (2001), Fi1m 92, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/spirited-away.md)
- *Porco Rosso* (1992), Fi1m 81, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/porco-rosso.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Scarlet* (2025), Producer
- *Belle* (2021), Producer
- *Mirai* (2018), Production Manager
- *Napping Princess* (2017), Executive Producer
- *The Boy and the Beast* (2015), Executive Producer
- *The Case of Hana & Alice* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Wolf Children* (2012), Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md)
- *Summer Wars* (2009), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/summer-wars.md)
- *K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces* (2008), Associate Producer
- *Always: Sunset on Third Street 2* (2007), Producer
- *Always - Sunset on Third Street* (2005), Producer
- *Howl's Moving Castle* (2004), Production Manager — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/howls-moving-castle.md)
- *Mei and the Kittenbus* (2002), Production Manager
- *The Cat Returns* (2002), Producer
- *Ghiblies: Episode 2* (2002), Producer
- *Spirited Away* (2001), Production Manager — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/spirited-away.md)
- *Ritual* (2000), Producer
- *Pom Poko* (1994), Production Manager
- *Ocean Waves* (1993), Production Manager
- *Porco Rosso* (1992), Production Manager — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/porco-rosso.md)
- *Only Yesterday* (1991), Production Manager

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