- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Paku-san
- Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013), Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and Only Yesterday (1991). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
- ParentsAsajiro Takahata
- After his death in 2018 and on June 2025, NHK reported that he had 130 pages of material and projects he was going to work on in his home that including a feature film adaptation of the famous Japanese story "Momotaro the Peach Boy", a prequel film to his film "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya", "Oeyama" an animated movie inspired by the story of the mythical demon leader Shuten-doji but with a comical take and "Moratta Hoseki" a animated feature film based on a children's story by author/poet/activist Kenji Miyazawa about a rabbit who obtains a precious jewel, is tricked into wrongdoing by a fox and loses his sight as punishment, must fix the error of his ways and drive away the mischievous fox with help from his animal friends.
- Attended Mie Prefectural Normal Boys' Kokumin School.
- Graduated from Okayama Asahi High School (1954).
- Graduated from Okayama University Middle School (1951).
- Graduated from the University of Tokyo w/ a degree in literature (1959).
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