Shinji Higuchi
- January 8, 2024
- Director
Quick Facts
Shinji Higuchi Biography
| Name | Shinji Higuchi |
| Birthday | Sep 22 |
| Birth Year | 1965 |
| Place Of Birth | Shinjuku |
| Birth Country | Japan |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
| Spouse | Noriko Takaya |
Shinji Higuchi is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on September 22, 1965 in Shinjuku, Japan.
As a teenage fan, he started out as one of the four founders of Daicon Films (now Gainax), along with Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Takami Akai. A highly talented artist, he worked on many of their early anime and tokusatsu productions, doing storyboarding as well as special effects. Soon, he got to help out special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano as an uncredited assistant for The Return of Godzilla (1984). But his first major FX credit came with Daicon’s 1985 low-budget daikaiju epic-comedy, The Eight-Headed Giant Serpent Strikes Back. He continued to be a storyboarder for anime such as Gunbuster (1988) and Otaku no Video (1991), and was the special effects director for Toho/Tsuburaya Productions’ 1991 SF-thriller, Mikadroid.
As a key Daicon/Gainax member, he also 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 2 episodes of Karekano.
Shinji Higuchi Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Director |
| House | Living in own house. |
Shinji Higuchi is one of the richest Director from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shinji Higuchi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Shinji Higuchi (樋口 真嗣 , Higuchi Shinji, born September 22, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan) is a storyboard artist, particularly in anime, and one of the top special effects supervisors in Japan, best known in the west for his work on Shusuke Kaneko’s Gamera trilogy in the 1990s. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.
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Who is Shinji Higuchi Dating?
According to our records, Shinji Higuchi married to Noriko Takaya. As of December 1, 2023, Shinji Higuchi’s is not dating anyone.
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Facts & Trivia
Shunsuke Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Shinji Higuchi celebrates birthday on September 22 of every year.