*anese film director

Shinji Higuchi (*anese: 樋口 真嗣, Hepburn: Higuchi Shinji, born September 22, 1965) is a *anese filmmaker and anime storyboard artist, and one of the top special effects supervisors in *an, best known in the west for his work on Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy in the 1990s, and the Shin trilogy of tokusatsu franchise reboots with Hideaki Anno in the 2010s and 2020s. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Filmography
  • 2.1 Director
  • 2.2 *istant director
  • 2.3 Special effects director
  • 2.4 Visual effects director
  • 2.5 *istant special effects director
  • 2.6 Special effects designer
  • 2.7 Storyboards
  • 2.8 Writer
  • 2.9 Visual Concept Designer
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

As a key Daicon/Gainax member, he played an important part in the creation of one of the most popular anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). He was a writer and art director/storyboarder for the series. He was also the namesake for the show's protagonist, Shinji Ikari. He later voice-acted a musician modeled after himself in two episodes of Karekano.

Filmography

Director

• Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
• Sinking of *an (2006)
• Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess (2008)
• Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012)
• The Floating Castle (2012)
• Attack on *an (2015)
• Attack on *an: End of the World (2015)
• Shin Godzilla (2016)
• Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan (2018)
• Shin Ultraman (2022)

*istant director

• Wings of Honneamise (1987)

Special effects director

• Mikadroid (1991)
• Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
• Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
• Shin Godzilla (2016)

Visual effects director

• Shin Godzilla (2016)

*istant special effects director

• The Return of Godzilla (1984)

Special effects designer

• Dragon Head (2003)

Storyboards

• Gunbuster (1988)
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990–1991)
• The End of Evangelion (1997)
• Pokemon: Jirachi Wish Maker (2003)
• C*hern (2004)
• Rebuild of Evangelion (2007–2021)
• Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011)
• Kill la Kill (2013)
• Attack on *an Season 3 (2018)

Writer

• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996)

Visual Concept Designer

• Kamen Rider Black Sun(2022)

References

External links

• Shinji Higuchi at IMDb
• 樋口真嗣 (Shinji Higuchi) at the *anese Movie Database (in *anese)