Shuhei Morita (Directing)

TAISU PROJECT

An animation anthology film project telling four interlinked tales of animated sci-fi and fantasy by directors from Japan, China and New Zealand that talks about war, life, love and what we are as human.

Release Date:2024-08-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

String Dance

The eagerly anticipated TAISU, an animated anthology film with two segments each from Japan and China, is just around the corner. In the meantime, Fantasia is delighted to present the second Japanese segment, following Shinichiro Watanabe’s A GIRL MEETS A BOY AND A ROBOT (Anime no bento 2022). Shuhei Morita, director of the TOKYO GHOUL TV series and the Oscar-nominated short POSSESSIONS, contributes a dramatic flight of fantasy in which otherworldly wonders meet all too familiar conflicts.

Release Date:2024-07-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Roots

The lonely princess Tashen, by chance, establishes a connection with a foreign girl named Aila through a pair of twin flowers, and gradually opens up her heart while chatting with her. However, at this time, the shadow of war looms over them…

Release Date:2023-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island

After a covert mission goes wrong, Mobile Suit pilot Amuro Ray and his comrades are stranded on a remote island. The battalion was sent to a land called the Island of No Return to clear off any enemy forces, only to find a group of children and an enemy mecha attack. Now Amuro must find a way for them all to escape this mysterious land, but not before meeting a strange man—Cucuruz Doan.

Release Date:2022-06-03

Department:Visual Effects

Job:CGI Director

Vote Count:16

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway

12 years after Char's rebellion, Hathaway Noa leads an insurgency against Earth Federation, but meeting an enemy officer and a mysterious woman alters his fate.

Release Date:2021-06-11

Department:Visual Effects

Job:CGI Director

Vote Count:122

Batman Ninja

Batman, along with many of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported to feudal Japan by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.

Release Date:2018-06-15

Department:Directing

Job:Second Unit Director

Vote Count:862

Anime Supernova

Meet the real stars of Japanese animation. From crayons to CGI, discover the techniques and inspirations of some of Japan's most amazing animators.

Release Date:2017-04-08

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Tokyo Ghoul

Ken Kaneki, a bookworm college student, meets Rize, a girl his own age with whom he shares many interests.

Release Date:2014-07-04

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:24

Vote Count:2325

Possessions

A man sheltering from a storm is trapped in a house where the objects have developed souls. In order to leave, he must first fix the objects.

Release Date:2014-01-31

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:26

SHORT PEACE

Release Date:2013-07-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Short Peace

A traveler is confronted by spirits in an abandoned shrine; a story of honor and firefighting in ancient Japan; a white bear defends the royal family from a monstrous red demon; ragtag soldiers battle a robotic force in futuristic Japan.

Release Date:2013-07-20

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:62

Gatchaman Crowds

Tachikawa, Japan, is a "second metropolis" of Tokyo, protected by the Gatchaman, warriors who fight in special reinforced suits powered by the manifestation of their spiritual powers called NOTE. When the energetic and cheerful Hajime Ichinose becomes their newest member, the Gatchaman must deal with Berg Katze, an enigmatic alien creature bent on destroying Earth just like it did with several other planets in the past.

Release Date:2013-07-13

Department:Visual Effects

Job:CGI Director

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:34

Coicent

In 2710, a boy named Shinichi is on a school field trip to a rebuilt 21st century version of the city Nara. When he wanders from his class, he spots a talking white deer and it steals his bag. Shinichi follows the deer and sees a strange girl named Toto and falls in love with her. She is being pursed by two brothers and they try to get away from them.

Release Date:2010-11-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Freedom

In the year 2267, more than 160 years after the Skyport orbital station fell to Earth and wiped out all of humanity, Eden is a thriving lunar colony home to young Takeru, who tries to make the most of the brief hiatus of freedom granted to the colony's inhabitants between the end of compulsory education and the rite of becoming a full citizen.

Release Date:2006-11-23

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:12

Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek

Among the ruins of the city, there is a game only children can play. It is called “Otokoyo”; a game of hide-and-seek. But whenever children play this game, one by one they would disappear into the blinds of the buildings… The story begins when a boy enters the world of Otokoyo, to find his missing sister.

Release Date:2004-09-01

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Vote Count:47