Born in Tokyo, Takahiro began working for NHK as a director in 1990. After working at the Hiroshima Branch of NHK, he was in charge of “Today’s Close-up” and “NHK Special”. In 2020, he studied filmmaking at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Since returning to Japan, he has continued to produce, focusing on international co-productions. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, he produced “Journey to the Disaster Zone: Japan 311” which won awards at film festivals in New York and Chicago in 2012, and “My Atomic Aunt which won awards at the Hamburg Film Festival in Germany in 2013.
He has worked on more than 30 international co-productions, including “Stolen Lives”, “Nano Revolution”, “Spaceship Earth”, “Equator 360”, and “Music for Tomorrow.” The film he produced, “Mother of Change” (2019), won the ATP Grand Prize. He was the first Japanese to win the Doc Mogul Award at the 2015 Hot Docs Festival, and won the Prix Italia and the ABU Digital Content Award for his work on the 2020 “Experience Tokyo Megaquake “. The international co-production with South Korea, “Burning” (2019), won The Critics’ Prizes at Cannes, New York, and LA film festivals. Also, it was selected for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards; the final nine-film shortlist. In recent years, he has continued to develop a platform for short documentaries; developing a 10-minute series project with Yahoo! Japan and bilibili (China) as well as NHK “Real Stories”.