Kazumi Takahashi (高橋 和巳, Takahashi Kazumi, 31 August 1931—3 May 1971) was a Japanese novelist and scholar of Chinese literature in Shōwa period Japan.

Takahashi was born in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, and was a graduate of Kyoto University.

During the widespread violent student protest movements in the 1960s against the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, Takahashi was an outspoken supporter of the radical student movement.

His novel, Hi no utsuwa (“Vessel of Sorrow”, 1962), depicts the fall of a university dean from respectability due to his self-centered love affairs.

Other works include Yuutsu naru Toha (“A Melancholy Faction”, 1965) and Jashumon (“Heretical Faith”, 1965–66).