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As a teenager 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, ''[[Mikadoroid]]''.
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, assistant director, and art director/storyboarder for that series. He was also the namesake for the show's protagonist, Shinji Ikari[1].
That same year was another turning point for Higuchi - he had directed the special effects for the highly-acclaimed 90s ''Gamera'' trilogy of films, all directed by Shusuke Kaneko. He had truly proved himself to be a top master in the field of Japanese special effects. He continued to direct FX for movies such as ''Sakuya - Slayer of Demons'' (2000), ''[[Princess Blade]]'' and ''[[Pistol Opera]]'', both 2001. That same year, he helped out with the sequence in the [[Godzilla]] film
In addition to special effects direction, Higuchi provided the CG animation for the first ''[[Hamtaro]]'' movie, and storyboarded the fight scenes for the CG tokusatsu superhero epic, ''[[Neo-Human Casshern|Casshern]]'' (2004), based on [[Tatsuo Yoshida]]'s 1973 anime series.
In 2005, he has directed the tokusatsu SF/World War II epic, ''[[Lorelei]]'', which has become a box-office success in Japan. His next project was a remake of the classic 70s [[Toho]] disaster film ''Japan Sinks'', released in 2006. The latter film was a massive success at the box office, but was poorly received by critics and won first place at the Golden Raspberry Awards (the Japanese equivalent of a Razzie). Recently Shinji Higuchi directed
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