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name: "Yūichirō Saitō"
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born: "5 November 1976"
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updated: "2026-09-17T06:50:01.734813+00:00"
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# Yūichirō Saitō

Producer. Born 5 November 1976 in Moriya, Ibaraki, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 5 November 1976, Moriya, Ibaraki, Japan
- **Also known as:** Yuichiro Saito
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11679076, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2510203/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81720

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Wolf Children*](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md) (81)

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## Biography

Yūichirō Saitō is a Japanese film producer. He is the founder and president of Studio Chizu, which he established with director Mamoru Hosoda in 2011.

Saitō studied in the United States before joining the animation studio Madhouse in 1999, where he worked on projects under producer Masao Maruyama. He produced Hosoda's *The Girl Who Leapt Through Time* (2006) and *Summer Wars* (2009) at Madhouse. After leaving the studio, he co-founded Studio Chizu and has since produced Hosoda's films exclusively, including *Wolf Children* (2012), *The Boy and the Beast* (2015), *Mirai* (2018) and *Belle* (2021).

Saitō was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for *Mirai*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, studiochizu.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wolf Children* (2012), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md)

## Also known for

- *The Girl Who Leapt Through Time* (2006), Producer
- *Summer Wars* (2009), Producer
- *Belle* (2021), Producer
- *Mirai* (2018), Producer
- *Scarlet* (2025), Producer
- *The Piano Forest* (2007), Producer
- *Final Fantasy VII: Last Order* (2005), Producer

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