The present invention provides methods for producing, from pluripotent stem cells, natural killer (NK) cells or precursor cells thereof. The methods are: a method which is characterized by comprising a) a step for inducing
hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) from pluripotent stem cells
in vitro, b) a step for amplifying the HPCs
in vitro, and c) a step for inducing, from the HPCs, NK cells or precursor cells thereof
in vitro, and which is characterized in that a
histone methyltransferase and / or an allyl
hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is inhibited in one or more of steps a)-c); and a method which comprises (1) a step for forming, in a first culture medium, pluripotent
stem cell spheres having an average particle size of 200 µm or more, (2) a step for inducing a
cell population including HPCs through three dimensional culturing of the pluripotent
stem cell spheres obtained in step (1) by using a second culture medium containing a
histone methyltransferase inhibitor and / or an AHR
antagonist, and (3) a step for inducing a
cell population including NK cells or precursor cells thereof through three dimensional culturing of the
cell population including the HPCs obtained in step (2) by using a third culture medium containing the
histone methyltransferase inhibitor and / or the AHR
antagonist, and in which one or more of steps (1)-(3) are performed through
perfusion culturing, and preferably steps (1)-(3) are performed through
continuous perfusion culturing.