Hiroshi Shidara (Director)

Marmalade Boy

Miki's parents come home from their vacation to announce that they are getting a divorce. But what is more shocking is that they have switched partners with another couple! And to top things off, this other couple has a handsome son, Yuu, who Miki begins to develop feelings for. To make things more disturbing, everyone moves into one house. What will everyone think about Miki's family lifestyle?

Release Date1994-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count18

Candy Candy

This story is about a girl, Candy, who is a orphan. She is a nice and optimistic girl and she has a warm heart. When she was a child, she lived in an orphanage called Pony's Home. She had a good friend called Ann. And she met the "handsome boy on the hill" who is a important person in her life, on the hill behind the orphanage. She was adopted by the Loka's family. What's awaiting her are the bad-hearted Leo and his sister, Eliza. One day, in the rose garden, she met a boy, who is identical to the "handsome boy on the hill" who she had met in her childhood. The boy is called Antony. Thereafter, a fantastic story that she has never expected begins.

Release Date1976-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count115

Vote Count660

Lady Lady!!

Release Date1987-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count57

Vote Count4

Lalabel

Lalabel, also known as Lalabel, The Magical Girl or Magical Girl Lalabel, is a magical girl anime by Toei Animation. A 15 minutes long "movie" special called Magical Girl Lalabel: the Sea Calls for a Summer Vacation was also created, it aired in Japan in July 1980.

Release Date1980-02-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count49

Vote Count2

Flower Angel

The King of the Flower Planet is dying, but his heir can't take up the throne until the legendary Seven Color Flower, symbol of the King's power, is found. The Angels Cateau and Noveau are sent to Earth to find the Flower Girl, a young female who descends from both humans and Flower Angels (who once inhabited Earth, long ago) - and they find Lunlun in France. They convince her to go in a long journey to find the Flower - she'll know the good and bad sides of humans and Flower Angels (incarnated in the ambitious Togenishia and her sidekick Boris), and will fall in love with Serge Flora, a man who holds a great secret.

Release Date1979-02-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count50

Vote Count86

Hello! Sandybell

Hello! Sandybell is an anime series made by Toei Animation in 1981. It was aired in Japan by TV Asahi. In the original title when it is made in Japan, her name is the spelling to which "E" is attached to an end by "Sandybelle". Similarly to Silver Fang, the show is relatively unknown in the U.S. but was quite popular in Asia, Latin America, Arab countries and Europe, particularly Scandinavia.

Release Date1981-03-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count47

Vote Count100

Hai! Step Jun

Hai Step Jun is a Japanese anime series aired on TV Asahi from March 10, 1985 to January 12, 1986.

Release Date1985-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count45

Vote Count4

The World's Most Famous Tales

Based on Western tales from the usual suspects: 1001 Nights, C. Perrault, Beaumont, J. & W. Grimm, H. C. Andersen, C. Collodi, English fairytale, H. Pyle, L. Carrol, J. Swift, A. Dumas, E. T. A Hoffman, L. F. Baum, and J. Spyri. Only 21 stories were broadcast, with the last five being released on VHS.

Release Date1995-10-04

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Little Big Nose

Tenmaru is the prince of the monster world who has accidentally let out to the human world, 108 atrocious monsters that were sealed in. In order to return them, he went to the human world with his follower.

Release Date1983-05-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count19

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

A peasant boy and 38 cats band against the tyrannical Ali Baba the 33rd and his cat-phobic genie.

Release Date1971-07-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Candy Candy: The Movie

A young girl named Candice White who was left on the doorstep of the "Pony Home", an orphanage, when she was just a baby. The sisters took her first name from a doll she had in her basket, with the name "Candy" on it, and her last name from the snowstorm she was rescued from. Life is quiet and happy.. or.. as quiet as life can be with Candy around. She has a penchant for getting into trouble, climbing trees and tussling with the best of them. However, tragedy begins to strike.

Release Date1992-04-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count59

Puss 'n Boots Travels Around the World

Brave cat Pero once had a bet with treacherous multimillionarie Grumon that he can travel around the world in 80 days. The stake is high, in case of success Grumon will give all of his fortune to Pero, but in case of failure Pero becomes slave of Grumon for the rest of his life. Pero departs together with his faithful friends behemoth Kato and brave Small Mouse. Grumon tries everything to prevent their arrival to the finish.

Release Date1976-03-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Papa Mama Bye Bye

Dungaree-wearing teenage tomboy Kaori lives next door to the brothers Ko and Yasu. One day as Kaori is walking to school, a US jet crashes near the boys' house. Based on the real life 1977 Yokohama F-4 crash incident.

Release Date1984-07-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Spooky Kitaro

Kitarō, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. A retelling of episodes 5-6 from the 1968 TV anime.

Release Date1968-07-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

World Famous Fairy Tale Series

A Japanese anime series of short films based on fairy tales and classic stories, produced by Toei Animation between 1975 and 1983.

Release Date1975-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Lady Lady!! The Movie

When Lynn's mother dies, she makes the promise that some day she will become a Lady, and travels to England to meet the rest of the family. She is not very welcomed (specially at the start by her stepsister Sara), but after some time they are all a happy family. Lynn is also very interested in horses and racing, and she wins a nice share of contests.

Release Date1988-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Candy Candy

Release Date1981-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Tiger Mask: War Against the League of Masked Wrestlers

Chizuru is a blind girl who lives in a poor rural orphanage, Hope House. In order to help her and get the winning prize of 100,000 dollars, Tiger Mask = Naoto Date turns his back on Baba and Inoki, who are indebted to him, and participates in the big event "Masked World League" set up by Tiger's Den. While hurt both physically and mentally, he fights against the monster wrestlers sent out by the Tiger's Den.

Release Date1970-07-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Fabulous World Of Tales - Cinderella

The Fabulous World of Tales - Cinderella is a Japanses language straight to VHS animated film

Release Date1995-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Candy Candy e Terence

Release Date1981-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Flower Angel

In 1985, ZIV International licensed their rights to Harmony Gold, who prepared a feature-film length condensation of the Hana no Ko Lunlun 1979 Magical Girl Anime with a new dub track and music score by Mark Mercury, under the name The Bullets, differing the previous ZIV dub from 1980. The characters were renamed, this time to Angel (Lunlun), Lily (Cateau), Periwinkle (Nuveau), Princess Wysteria (Togenishia), Ragweed (Yabouki) and Stefan (Serge Flora). The episodes that were featured in the film were episodes 1, 7, 24, 29, 49 and 50. The 37th episode was also covered, but it was only the intro to coincide with the beginning events of the 49th episode. This film was not released in America, but received multiple VHS releases in the UK.

Release Date1987-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobCo-Director