Hidehito Ueda (Director)
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Works
Bleach
For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as Hollows, he finds his life is changed forever. Now, with a newfound wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling: to protect the living and the dead from evil.
Release Date2004-10-05
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count2034
Naruto
Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja.
Release Date2002-10-03
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count5842
Natsume's Book of Friends
Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.
Release Date2008-07-08
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count3
Vote Count93
Beelzebub
Violent delinquent Oga encounters a baby one day, which crawls onto his back and immediately forms an attachment to him. Though he doesn't know it yet, this baby is named Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, or "Baby Beel" for short—the son of the Demon Lord!
Release Date2011-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count264
GANTZ
If you are chosen by the bizarre black sphere known as the Gantz, you are already dead—yet you might be able to reclaim your mortality. First, the Gantz demands that you undertake brutal missions of madness, killing aliens hidden among the population. It is your only chance and you have no choice. You must play this disturbing game. And if you die again—and you likely will—it’s permanent.
Release Date2004-04-13
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count295
Great Teacher Onizuka
A former gang member wants to be Japan's best teacher. When he's hired to supervise a class of hopeless cases, it's his chance to prove himself.
Release Date1999-06-30
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count4
Vote Count245
Transformers: Armada
Earth kids enter a conflict between two factions of Transformers.
Release Date2003-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count25
Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu
Gaiking: Legend of Daikuu-Maryuu is a Super Robot mecha anime series produced by Toei Animation. It was a reimagining of the original series created by Go Nagai, and was aired in TV Asahi from November 12, 2005 to September 24, 2006, lasting a total of 39 episodes. It originally replaced Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo in its timeslot.
Release Date2005-11-12
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Dog Days
Dog Days takes place in the world of Flonyard, an alternate world where its inhabitants look like humans but with animal ears. When Cinque Izumi suddenly gets summoned to this alternate world he is appointed as a Hero. How will he lead his life and interact with the various characters in this new world?
Release Date2011-04-02
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count40
The Three-eyed One
The Three-Eyed One is a romance SF manga by Osamu Tezuka. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 7 July 1974 through 19 March 1978 and was later published into thirteen tankōbon by Kodansha. This story is about Hosuke Sharaku, the heir to the long lost super civilization of the "Three Eyed Ones", and his best friend, Chiyoko Wato, with whom he solves various problems, often of his own doing. In 1977, The Three-Eyed One tied with another Tezuka manga, Black Jack, for the Kodansha Manga Award. The manga has since spawned a TV special by Shueisha and later an anime whose 48 episodes ran from 18 October 1990 through 26 September 1991. The main character appears in three video games: Mittsume ga Tooru by Natsume on the MSX in 1989, Mittsume ga Tooru/The Three-Eyed One by Tomy on the NES in 1992, Astro Boy: Omega Factor by Sega on the Game Boy Advance and Astro Boy by Sega on the PlayStation 2.
Release Date1990-10-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count48
Vote Count2
Cybuster
In 2040, the continuous pollution and the mysterious series of earthquakes left the city of Tokyo in ruins. A young man named Ken Ando is in training to become a member of DC, an army-like organization designed to investigate and protect the collapsing environment. Ken, with the support from his sister, Sayuri, gives his best to become a part of the elite group. But he receives the devastating news of being cut from the team because of his poor performances in the evaluation sessions. When an ominous monster suddenly appears from the sky with a blinding flash and starts mowing down DC's working robots with mysterious invisible forces. Ken, eager to show what he is truly made of, engages in a battle with the monster. Little does he realize his own fate and the fate of Earth itself may be linked to the mysterious Mech from another world.
Release Date1999-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count26
Vote Count1
Ghost Stories
When nearby construction disturbs a spiritual resting place, its disgruntled denizens do what any supernatural beings would do after a rude awakening: they terrorize the local school. And that means it’s up to a scruffy band of young ghostbusters to expel their satanic schoolmates before everyone gets sent to permanent detention! So join Satsuki, her crybaby brother, the resident class stud, the school nerd and "physical researcher," a born-again beauty, and a resentful, demon-possessed cat in the funniest, scariest school you’ve ever enrolled in.
Release Date2000-10-22
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count123
Mononoke
The Medicine Seller is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called mononoke to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcism Sword and fight against it. He must begin his strange exorcisms with intense psychological analysis and careful investigative work—an extremely dangerous step, as he must first confront and learn about the mononoke before he even has the means to defeat it.
Release Date2007-07-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count66
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
Ryunosuke has an interesting life for a teen-aged boy. His mother runs a weapons company, his father is an incredible inventor that's on the run from his divorced wife. And his companion is schoolgirl/android with the brains of a cat he found on Christmas Eve while being attacked by his mom's crew. Nuku Nuku was adapted from its manga origins a few times, and this one is the best and shortest of those attempts.
Release Date1992-10-21
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Ninku
The story in Ninku is about an odd-looking 12-year-old named Fūsuke (Fūsuke of the wind) who is a powerful warrior from the Ninku school of martial arts, a style that mixes ninjutsu and karate. It is explained that before the present time in the story that those who could use Ninku were targeted by an evil empire and the Ninku corps were formed to combat the menace. The names of the corps were taken from the twelve Chinese zodiac animals (Eto) and each captain of the corps was called the zodiac animal Ninku master (Etonin). When the war was over, the Ninku were defeated and almost all of them were killed since they were useless and were also dangerous for the rulers. At the beginning of the story, three years later, Fūsuke, the young former captain of the 1st Ninku corps and controller of the wind and Hiroyuki, his flatulent penguin, start searching for the other Ninku captains...
Release Date1995-01-14
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Baby and Me
Takuya Enoki is living a difficult life for a fifth grader. His mother passed away in a tragic car accident a few months ago, forcing him to pick up the slack and take care of his baby brother, Minoru, as his father works the endless hours typical of a Japanese salaryman. He will have to sacrifice his childhood in order to meet the needs of his little brother. Cooking, cleaning, worrying, and trying to discipline Minoru are some of the tasks Takuya will have on his plate, all while their neighbors blame him for Minoru’s constant crying. Meanwhile, he will watch as his friends live their carefree lives, enjoying their free time. It will not be easy and there will be plenty of stumbling blocks, but along the way, he may actually learn the true meaning of family.
Release Date1996-07-11
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count12
A.D. Police
MegaTokyo 2038: A.D. Police Officer Kenji Sasaki loses another partner to a rabid boomer. A day after he's sent off-duty, he receives a new partner: German cop Hans Kleif.
Release Date1999-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count19
Osomatsu-kun
The adventures of Iyami, a con artist who's always looking for a quick buck, and Chibita, his short-statured kid partner-in-crime, as they make trouble for their town and constantly cause friction with the Matsuno sextuplets, a clan of rowdy identical 10-year-old brothers led by the eldest, Osomatsu.
Release Date1988-02-13
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count17
Vote Count3
H2
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.
Release Date1995-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count41
Vote Count6
Zillion
On the planet Maris in the year 2387 three teen soldiers fight back against invading aliens.
Release Date1987-04-12
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
Kamichu!
Yurie is just an ordinary middle school girl in the 1980's - until overnight she finds out that she is a Kami, or God, in the Shinto sense. When Yurie announces this fact to her best friend Mitsue, their classmate Mitsuri takes advantage of Yurie's new divinity to revitalize her family's dying shrine. Yurie is nicknamed Kamichu and now must go on with her godly duties while going to school and winning the heart of her crush, Kenji, while Mitsuri tries to replace her old shrine god Yashima with her.
Release Date2005-06-29
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Graveyard Kitaro
Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.
Release Date2008-01-10
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
EAT-MAN
Bolt Crank is an "explorer"--a mercenary who only accepts jobs that fits his moral standards. Even so, explorers like him are rarely trusted, and employment both in getting and also doing the job is hazardous. However, despite the fact Bolt says it's the only job he's any good at, he's also the best explorer around. Moreover, he has a unique ability. He's able to eat anything at all, and later can reproduce it wholly intact and functional! As an enigmatic man of few words, it's hard to understand someone who can do something so strange, and who despite it all, just wants to be normal.
Release Date1997-01-10
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Fuma no Kojirou: Yasha-hen
Hakuo Academy used to be a prestigious high school, and famous for martial arts. However, because the rival school, Seishikan, lured superior students by dirty way, Hakuo Academy was going to decline. In order to recover from the situation, Hokujo Hikoko, the chairperson of the board of directors, sent a messenger to the Fuma Village. Fuma Clan was a ninja group, and it was said that they could run several thousands miles a day, they could hear a needle drop three miles away, and they could tell apart one's face a mile away in darkness, etc. The leader of Fuma sent Kojiro to the academy. What was waiting for him at school was fight against Yasha Clan that worked for Seishikan and the strongest enemy Asuka Musashi. Musashi was fighting for a little sister who was suffering from incurable disease.
Release Date1989-06-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
Animated Classics of Japanese Literature
A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature. The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years. The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).
Release Date1986-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Time Bokan Series: Yattodetaman
Two royal houses battle for the power to rule the Kingdom of Fir. In order to secure the Kingdom, two representatives go back in time to find the mythical Firebird, which will allow its bearer to become the rightful ruler.
Release Date1981-02-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count52
Vote Count2
Saber Marionette R
Jr., the heir of Romana and his battle sabers Cherry and Lime, who have girl circuits are enjoying their peaceful life in Romana. Suddenly, the evil Star-Face and his sexadolls attack Romana in order to take over so Star-Face can become the next High Official. In order to truly become the next High Official and ruler of Romana, he must first eliminate Jr. This begins a battle for, not only Jr.'s life, but for all of Romana. Also see: Saber Marionette J
Release Date1995-05-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Time Bokan Series: Gyakuten Ippatsuman
Gyakuten! Ippatsuman is the sixth in the Time Bokan series. In the 1990s-era Osteandel City is the headquarters of Time Lease, a business that leases almost everything you could ask for including powerful robots. They are proud of themselves for being number one in the international ranking of billionaires, for the past ten consecutive years. Meanwhile there is another lease company in the same city called Skull Lease where the notorious villain trio work as top executives. Their ostensible object is to disgrace the credit of Time Lease and replace them as the leading enterprise. In fact, however, they have a scheme to secure a footing for world conquest. One day a transport robot of Time Lease is assaulted by the villain trio and it is time for Ippatsuman to get on the move to fight for justice.
Release Date1982-02-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count58
Vote Count1
Ambassador Magma
The alien invader Goa plots to conquer planet Earth. He first warns the Murakami family (father Atsushi, mother Tomoko, and son Mamoru) of their invasion, and demonstrates his powers by transporting them to a prehistoric jungle and destroying a giant dinosaur before their very eyes. But they will not agree to surrender to Goa, so hope comes in the form of Magma, an armored, golden giant with long hair and antennae. He and his human-sized wife Mol — both created by the wizard Earth — are sent to defend our world against Goa. They befriend Atsushi and Mamoru, the latter has Magma emotionally touched since he wanted to have a child with Mol, so Earth creates a duplicate of Mamoru, named Gam Earth, and gives Mamoru a whistle, with which he can call Gam, Mol, and Magma in times of crisis. So when Goa unleashes his various daikaiju, chances are, Magma, Mol, and Gam will fly to the rescue.
Release Date1993-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Alpen Rose
Alpen Rose is a shōjo manga series created by Michiyo Akaishi. The story was adapted into an anime by Tatsunoko Productions in 1985, with character designs by Akemi Takada.
Release Date1985-04-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count20
Mecha-Doc
Mechadoc is a powerful race car obtained from a simple economy car, which is able to race on any ground.
Release Date1984-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count30
Vote Count2
Time Bokan Series: Itadakiman
One day three intelligent children are called in by the principal and asked by Shakyamuni dwelling in his body to find missing puzzle copperplates scattered all over the world and complete the puzzle board to heighten honor of Oshaka School. The conversation, however, is overheard by the villain trio and they decide to forestall those selected youngsters. Then they happen to meet with a brilliant boy named koochan who appears handy and so they take him with them and attempt to take away puzzle copperplates from a goblin. At the same time they try to win the goblin over to their side and attack our heroes together. Being aware of the evil scheme, Koochan transforms himself into Itadakiman and fights bravely to drive the wicked trio away.
Release Date1983-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count20
Vote Count1
Lupin the Third: Swallowtail Tattoo
Fujiko and Lupin are kidnapped by Malkovich, a notorious criminal escaped from Alcatraz who forces Lupin to steal the "Bull's Eye," a precious stone.
Release Date2004-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count31
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria
Second part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Yuria's perspective, spanning from her childhood, including the day she first met Kenshiro.
Release Date2007-02-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count40
Heisei Tensai Bakabon
Studio Pierrot's first adaptation of Fujio Akatsuka's family comedy, and the franchise's overall third.
Release Date1990-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Fuma no Kojirou : Seiken Sensou Hen
Hakuo Gakuin used to be a prestigious high school, and famous for martial arts. However, because its rival school; Seishikan, has been cowardly luring it's superior students, Hakuo was going to decline. In order to recover from the situation, the acting principal of Hakuo; Hojo Himeko, sends Yagyu Ranko to the Fuma Village in search of the famous Fuma ninja clan for assistance. The leader of the Fuma sent Kojiro to Hakuo, there he faces the notorious Yasha clan who fights for Seishikan lead by Asuka Musashi. Soon Kojiro's comrades arrive and an all-out ninja war postponed for 500 years begins between the 2 clans.
Release Date1990-09-21
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Akuemon
A fortuneteller tells Hidari Taisho that he must hunt down 1000 foxes in order to conquer the country. So Akuemon, who is disliked by everybody, is hired to do the foxhunting. In response, the foxes send a female fox to Akuemon's house disguised as his wife. A story unfolds between Akuemon, who has never loved anyone, and the female fox, who slowly discovers true love in him even while tormented by sorrow over her comrades' death. This is the 6th work in "The Lion Books" series. It is also the first attempt by visualist Tezuka Makoto, Tezuka's older son, to render an original of his father's into an animated version.
Release Date1993-07-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
True Love Story Summer Days, and yet...
After his mother's death Yuuta Morisaki and his older sister Ruri move into the city. In a school corridor, Yuuta bumps into the cute yet slightly klutzy Hina Kusunose, a member of the tennis club. Hina remembers their shared past. Slowly Yuuta starts to remember the childhood promise he made to the girl with whom he used to play when his mother was still alive.
Release Date2003-09-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert
A dispute between young band members and an unfortunate choice of melody inadverdently draws them all into the demonic horror known as the desert-god Gandalla.
Release Date1998-04-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count26
Vote Count1
OKAWARI-BOY スターザンS
Release Date1984-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count34
Zukkoke Sannin-gumi: Zukkoke Jikuu Bouken
Three reporters from the school paper get transported back to the Edo period.
Release Date1988-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Blazing Alpenrose
Two-part OVA that sumarizes the entire Alpen Rose TV series featuring a new dubbing and reworked scenes. While walking through the Swiss countryside, Randy finds a small girl who seems to be the only surviving person from an airplane crash. The little girl doesn't remember anything, so Randy decides to take care of her and names her Judy. Both of them go through their childhood together. A few years later, Judy, now 16 years old, wants to discover her past. With the help of Randy, she leaves to search for her origins. Her single clue is a song that she keeps hearing in her head, a song called Alpine Rose. In this time World War, these two young people will have to overcome many obstacles to reach their goal, while having only each other for comfort and support.
Release Date1986-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Essays On Insects
This animated film is comprised of five themes chosen from Tezuka Osamu's collection of essays "Essay in Idleness of Insects" in which he had compiled studies on insects. Although this collection contains mainly academic studies, it also includes records of insect observation that lead to literary conclusions with mysterious or mythical imagery. The five essays are done in different animation techniques, and each episode is followed by a scene with the boy Tezuka Osamu and a swallow-tailed butterfly called "Oomurasaki." The film depicts the boy Tezuka Osamu desperately chasing Oomurasaki with his butterfly net, together with what he saw in his dreams. This work was screened at the show "Tezuka Osamu: Images of the Past and Future".
Release Date1995-08-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Honoo no Alpenrose: Sweet Memory Ongaku-hen
A music-video style recap OVA. This release covers episode 1-11. Some music used is full song versions with accompanied singing, other sections of the recap are entirely classical Austrian music.
Release Date1985-12-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Sei Michaela Gakuen Hyouryuuki
During the ill-fated Children's Crusade of A.D. 1212, Pope Innocent III double-crosses the loyal Christian soldiers and sells them to African slaves. Distraught at his betrayal by the very church he is sworn to serve, the children's leader, Hans, throws himself into the sea. Centuries later, he is reincarnated as a hermaphrodite in a convent school, where he seduces the girls and leads them in a bloody revolt against the oppressive nuns. Seizing control of the nun's time tunnel, Hans (now called Aiko) and his/her chums travel back to Japan's Amakusa Rebellion, where they fight the evil Christians. Eventually, all religions are wiped out in a worldwide atheist jihad, and the battle-hardened schoolgirls decide to go back in time again to save the original Hans.
Release Date1990-06-22
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1