---
name: "Toshimitsu Takeuchi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/toshimitsu-takeuchi"
fi1m_id: "toshimitsu-takeuchi"
imdb_id: "nm3081899"
tmdb_id: 1311139
wikidata_id: "Q20045409"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T19:52:14.462410+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."
---

# Toshimitsu Takeuchi

## Identity

Toshimitsu Takeuchi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/toshimitsu-takeuchi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** toshimitsu-takeuchi
- **IMDb ID:** nm3081899
- **TMDB ID:** 1311139
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20045409
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20045409, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3081899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1311139

Director. Born in Hokkaido, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 1999–2014
- **Also known as:** 竹内 利光
- **Frequently works with:** [Takashi Ōtsuka](https://film.one/person/takashi-otsuka.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20045409, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3081899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1311139

## Coming up

- *Sgt. Frog☆* (2026-10-03), Writer

## Streaming the US now

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

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

## Biography

Toshimitsu Takeuchi is a Japanese screenwriter and series composer, also credited as 竹内 利光. Born in Hokkaido in 1969, he graduated from Tamagawa University and completed the 17th term of the Japan Scenario Writers Association scenario course in 1991.

He has contributed scripts to numerous anime series, including episodes of *Haikyu!!* (2014). He is credited as director on *One Piece* (1999) and has served as series composition or main writer on titles such as *Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold* (2015), *Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens* (2020) and *Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!* (2022).

*Sources: ja.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, yugipedia.com, moviewiser.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Sgt. Frog☆* (2026), series, Writer
- *Dungeon People* (2024), series, as Series Composition
- *Magical Destroyers* (2023), series, Writer
- *Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!* (2022), series, as Series Composition · Writer
- *Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout* (2022), series, as Series Composition
- *Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS* (2020), series, as Series Composition · Writer
- *Sorcerous Stabber Orphen* (2020), series, Writer
- *Captain Bal* (2019), Screenplay
- *Caligula* (2018), series, Writer
- *ēlDLIVE* (2017), series, as Series Composition
- *Haikyu!! the Movie: The End and the Beginning* (2015), Screenplay
- *Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold* (2015), series, as Series Composition
- *Blade Dance of Elementalers* (2014), series, Writer
- *Haikyu!!* (2014), series, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)
- *NARUTO Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals* (2012), series, Writer
- *Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal* (2011), series, Writer
- *Robo Rock* (2007), Writer
- *Hataraki Man* (2006), series, Writer
- *Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters* (2006), series, Writer
- *Fairy Musketeers* (2006), series, Writer
- *One Piece* (1999), series, Director

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