Shinji Higuchi
Birthday: 1965-09-22
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Shinji Higuchi is a movie director, storyboard artist and SFX specialist. He is one of the top special effects wizards in Japan, often working in animation. Higuchi is one of the original founders of Gainax, along with Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Takami Akai. Higuchi gain recognition for his special effects work in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy and is a frequent collaborator with Hideaki Anno on both anime and tokusatsu projects.
Movies
Death Kappa
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic propor...
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Kyrie
Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...
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A Forest with No Name
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigio...
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Brush of the God
His story follows a schoolgirl named Akari Tokimiya and the fantastical adventure which occurs when ...
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
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Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
Tachigui retells Japan's history from 1945 to 21st century through the feats of self-proclaimed dine...
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The Making of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
The production of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. Includes interviews with director Shusuke Kaneko...
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The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...
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GAMERA 1999
Hideaki Anno's documentary about the making of Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. From conc...
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The Intermission
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the e...
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The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8
An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to rais...
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Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
EVANGELION is coming to an end. NHK spent 4 years with exclusive access to director Hideaki Anno, do...
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Document Love & Pop
Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumb...
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Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director
A documentary film that delves into the life and cinematic career of one of Japan's most prolific di...
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Breakfast of the Movie
Documentary on the legendary bento shop "Popeye," known to everyone in the film industry....
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Kibakichi
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who...
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