Masakazu Higuchi (Director)
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Works
The Real Ghostbusters
The continuing adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer.
Release Date1986-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count284
Folktales from Japan
Hometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan is a Japanese anime television series that adapts various traditional stories from Japan. The narration and all character voices are provided by veteran Japanese film actors Akira Emoto and Yoneko Matsukane. An English-subtitled version began "simulcast" availability on the streaming service Crunchyroll March 12, 2012.
Release Date2012-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
I'm Standing on a Million Lives
Ninth grader Yotsuya Yuusuke is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives. Yotsuya is a lone wolf and has always lived his life according to his wants, but how will that work out now that he’s supposed to be a hero?!
Release Date2020-10-02
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobKey Animation
Episode Count1
Vote Count61
Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
Making up for her sins in a past life as the evil princess Elise, Aoi Takamoto dedicates her life to saving people as a doctor. But a fatal accident cuts her atonement short, and suddenly, she's back to her previous life, 10 years before her death! Will her foresight and medical brilliance help her change her past ways and heal an ailing empire, or is fate doomed to repeat itself?
Release Date2024-01-10
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobKey Animation
Episode Count1
Vote Count36
The Flying House
Corky, Angey, and Justin are playing hide and seek in the woods when a sudden storm appears and they come upon a house in the woods. They go inside and meet Professor Bumble and his Solar Ion Robot, SIR. They discover the house is a flying time machine and a sudden mishap send them into the past where they end up witnessing events from The Bible's New Testament as they keep trying to get home.
Release Date1982-04-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count52
Vote Count4
Beauty and the Beast
A young, beautiful girl awaits the day she will be killed after having asked for a most humble gift.
Release Date1992-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count33
A Thousand and One Nights
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Release Date1969-06-14
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobKey Animation
Vote Count50
Pinocchio
The Little Wooden Toy. The unforgettable story of a little wooden boy who longs with all his heart to become real. When a small spark of magic escapes from the Blue Fairy's home, it travels down toy maker Gepetto's chimney, bringing one small log to life. Then, when Gepetto's toys stop being sold regularly, he decides to make a toy for his own using this same log. Soon, his new wooden puppet is complete, which instantly comes to life getting mixed up in all kinds of troubles. Soon, however, with the guidance of the talking cricket and the Blue Fairy, Pinocchio learns what is needed for him to earn his heart's desire of becoming a real boy. Written by Frederick Irizarry.
Release Date1992-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count21
Jungle Emperor Leo
Tezuka Osamu's most famous work "Jungle Emperor Leo" has been made into an animated version a number of times. In this theater version, Tezuka Osamu was able for the first time to depict the theme that "All life is equal" through Leo's self-sacrifice.
Release Date1997-08-01
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobKey Animation
Vote Count75
The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Release Date1992-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Beaten by Black Rain
Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stand Akauma, a bar: Takeshi, who lost his entire family; Tomoko, a prostitute horribly burned in the bombing; her younger brother Junji, who scrabbles on the fringes of society; Eiko, a pregnant young woman whom he loves; and Yuri, another prostitute who is determined to secure a brighter future for her blind son.
Release Date1984-08-12
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobKey Animation
Vote Count4
Elves of the Forest
Family Santa Claus lives along with the elves and wights in a forest in Finland. They experience a lot of adventures along with the other residents of the forest. For example, they pack Christmas presents together.
Release Date1984-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count23
Daddy Long Legs
An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs.
Release Date1979-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Thumbelina
The dam where Thumbelina and her father live is breaking due to the rising waters in the nearby pond. Father worries that when spring comes, the melting snows will rise the water higher than ever causing the dam to crack and water to flow over the meadow, thus drowning the little people who live there. Father believes he is too old to take on the journey to find the prince and warn him and his people, so he asks his daughter to go instead. Thumbelina agrees, but in her journey she mets a great deal of characters, both good and evil. To someone not bigger than a human's thumb, dealing with the evil intentions of Mona, a greedy mouse, will prove to be a big challenge.
Release Date1992-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn is a homeless boy because he was abandoned by his father, who left the village for over a year. Although he lives in a barrel and the mother of his little friend Tom Sawyer does not want children to play with him, he is always surrounded by many friends. And it is during one of these games, while he is exploring a cave in search of "pirate treasure" that Huck discovers two robbers who had just looted the village.
Release Date1976-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
Mori no Tonto-Tachi
Release Date1984-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count25
The Little Mermaid
This charming, lively tale based on Hans Christian Anderson's beloved children's story comes to splendid life in an enchanting animated film. The beautiful and adventurous mermaid, Princess Lena, lives with her family in a watery castle and has everything she could ever need, but she longs for only one thing; to explore the world of humans. Determined to marry Prince Stefan, whom she sees when a whirlpool takes her to the surface, Princess Lena must turn to the evil sea witch Cassandra and pay a heavy price for her promise of help.
Release Date1992-05-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
Aladdin
A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.
Release Date1992-04-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count66
A Christmas Adventure
Episodes of "Elves of the Forest" (1984) dubbed in English and edited together into a short movie by DIC Animation City.
Release Date1991-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Parasol Henbe
Parasol Henbe is a Japanese anime series produced and directed by Fujiko Fujio in 1989 which ran for 200 episodes and was translated into many languages - Chinese, English, Hebrew and Spanish amongs them. Abiko also adapted the series into a manga.
Release Date1989-10-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Manga of Great Personalities
From Genghis Khan to Thomas Edison, each episode in this series focuses on the life and achievement of two of history's greatest and most important persons.
Release Date1977-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count46
Wolf of Vengeance
Release Date2016-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector