Shinji Higuchi

Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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.

Top 10 collaborators

20 collaborations (as Animation; Animation Director; Director; Director of Photography; Editor; Executive Producer; Key Animation; Mechanical Designer; Motion Actor; Original Film Writer; Original Story; Producer; Screenplay; Sound Designer; Storyboard; Storyboard Artist; Writer)

15 collaborations (as Music; Original Music Composer)

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

12 collaborations (as Animation; Animation Director; Character Designer; Key Animation)

12 collaborations (as CGI Director; Editor; VFX Supervisor; Visual Effects; Visual Effects Director; Visual Effects Supervisor)

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11 collaborations (as Assistant Director; Co-Director; Other; Second Unit Director; Special Effects; Special Effects Supervisor)

Megumi Hayashibara

10 collaborations

Kazuya Tsurumaki

10 collaborations (as Co-Director; Co-Writer; Director; Key Animation; Second Unit Director; Storyboard; Storyboard Artist)

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10 collaborations (as Animation Director; Assistant Director; Co-Director; Director; Editor; Key Animation; Storyboard; Storyboard Artist)

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10 collaborations (as Assistant Director; Director; Key Animation; Special Effects)

Motomu Kiyokawa

10 collaborations

Roles

Match

Brush of the God (2024)

The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (2020)

The Intermission (2013)

Death Kappa (2010)

Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters (2006)

Beefbowl Ushigoro (voice)

A Forest with No Name (2003)

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

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