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.

Filmography

• 2026EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening — Production Supervisor
• 2025Bullet Train Explosion — Director
• 2024Brush of the God
• Luca on the Road — Takashi Shiomi
• 2023Breakfast of the Movie
• 2023Kyrie — Takashi Shiomi
• Kamen Rider Black Sun — Concept Artist
• 2022Ribbon — Special Effects
• Shin Ultra Fight — Director, Series Director
• 2022Shin Ultraman — Storyboard Artist, Director
• 2022Thunderbirds 55/GOGO — Director, Editor, Writer
• 2020The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 — Story, Original Concept
• DRAGON PILOT: Hisone and Masotan — Series Director, Original Story, Storyboard Artist
• 2016Shin Godzilla — Storyboard, Visual Effects Director, Visual Effects Technical Director
• 2015Attack on Titan — Director
• 2015Attack on Titan II: End of the World — Director
• Attack on Titan: Counter Rockets — Series Director
• 2014Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark — Storyboard Artist
• Attack on Titan — Storyboard Artist
• Kill la Kill — Storyboard Artist
• 2013Peaceful Times (F02) Petit Film — Director
• 2013The Intermission
• 2012Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo — Storyboard Artist
• 2012Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo — Director
• 2012The Floating Castle — Director
• 2011Towa no Quon 3: The Complicity of Dreams — Storyboard Artist
• 2010Death Kappa — Reporter
• Monster Magnitude: 9 — Series Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt — Storyboard Artist
• 2009Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance — Storyboard Artist, Assistant Script
• 2009Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster — Executive Producer
• 2008The Last Princess — Director
• 2007Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone — Storyboard Artist
• 2006Gunbuster: The Movie — Storyboard Artist
• 2006Japan Sinks — Director
• 2006Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters — Beefbowl Ushigoro (voice)
• 2005Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean — Director
• 2004Kibakichi — Shinnosuke Higuchi
• 2003Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name — No. 19
• 2003Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker — Other
• 2002Minimoni The Movie: The Great Cake Adventure! — Director
• The Private Detective Mike
• 2002Vandread Turbulence — Director
• 2001All About Lily Chou-Chou — Otaku
• 2001Pistol Opera — Special Effects
• 2001The Princess Blade — Visual Effects Director
• 2001Vandread Integral — Director
• FLCL — Mechanical Designer
• 1999GAMERA 1999
• 1999Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris — Creature Design, Visual Effects Director
• 1998Document Love & Pop
• 1998EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² — Screenplay
• His and Her Circumstances — Member B (voice)
• 1998Revival of Evangelion — Screenplay
• 1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth — Screenplay
• 1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — Storyboard Artist
• 1996Gamera 2: Advent of Legion — Visual Effects Director, Creature Design
• 1996Space Ship Remnant 6 — Visual Effects Director
• 1995Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe — Special Effects
• Neon Genesis Evangelion — Writer, Storyboard Artist
• 1995The Making of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
• 1993The Man Who Wanted to Be Ultraman — Storyboard Artist
• Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero — Special Effects Supervisor, Storyboard Artist
• 1992Future Memories: Last Christmas — Visual Effects Director
• 1992The Cat — Special Effects Assistant
• 1991Mikadroid — Special Effects
• 1991Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I — Director
• 1991Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II — Director
• 1991Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III — Director
• 1991Otaku no Video — Storyboard
• 1991The Cat- Beast Wars: Nine Lives — Special Effects Supervisor
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water — Storyboard Artist, Director
• 1990Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars — Storyboard, Storyboard Artist
• 1989The Men Who Made Ultraman — Special Effects
• 1988Dragon Quest Fantasia Video — Special Effects
• Gunbuster — Storyboard Artist
• 1987Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise — Assistant Director
• 1985Godzilla 1985 — Special Effects
• 1985Orochi Strikes Again — Visual Effects, Special Effects
• 1984The Return of Godzilla — Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
• Untitled Shin Godzilla Sequel — Director

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2026THE ORIGIN OF ULTRAMAN — Self
• 2024Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director — Himself
• Lost Man Found — Himself
• 2022Taroman Historia — Self
• 2021Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion — Self
• 2019The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga — Self - SFX Director