Tsutomu Shibayama

Directing

Tsutomu Shibayama

Born — Died

1941-03-09 — 2026-03-06

Place of birth

Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Tsutomu Shibayama was a Japanese anime director of film and television, best known for directing the 1979 and 2005 Doraemon series. He was born in Asakusa, Taitō, Tokyo. In 2012 he won Agency for Cultural Affair Award.

Known for

Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves poster
7.1

Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancient dragon.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves

2001

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express poster
7.4

Doraemon went missing for 3 days. But it turns out later that he went to the 22nd century to buy a mystery galactic express train ticket whose destination is a secret until the passengers arrive there and see for themselves.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express

1996

Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King poster
7.0

Doraemon and its friends open a hole in the time and they're travel to the Country of Mayana, a lost Mayan civilization in the jungle.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King

2000

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights poster
7.0

Shizuka ends up in the fantasy world of the 'Arabian Nights' story. However, Doraemon, Nobita, Suneo, and Jyaian must find her from the imaginary Middle East and bring her back to the real life.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights

1991

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth poster
7.1

Nobita and his friends find a portal to a mysterious resort filled with metal buildings. They soon discover that the person who opened the portal for them has an ulterior motive.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth

1993

Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom poster
6.5

Nobita, Doraemon, and the rest travel to the far future, on an inhabited planet where humans and robots coexist. The Empress of the Robot Kingdom is plotting to strip the robot inhabitants of their emotions, so it's up to Nobita and his friends to stop the plan, while also helping a robot boy named Poko from getting caught in the middle.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom

2002

Behind the camera

Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves poster
7.1

Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancient dragon.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves

2001

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express poster
7.4

Doraemon went missing for 3 days. But it turns out later that he went to the 22nd century to buy a mystery galactic express train ticket whose destination is a secret until the passengers arrive there and see for themselves.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express

1996

Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King poster
7.0

Doraemon and its friends open a hole in the time and they're travel to the Country of Mayana, a lost Mayan civilization in the jungle.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King

2000

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights poster
7.0

Shizuka ends up in the fantasy world of the 'Arabian Nights' story. However, Doraemon, Nobita, Suneo, and Jyaian must find her from the imaginary Middle East and bring her back to the real life.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights

1991

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth poster
7.1

Nobita and his friends find a portal to a mysterious resort filled with metal buildings. They soon discover that the person who opened the portal for them has an ulterior motive.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth

1993

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth poster
7.1

Nobita and his friends find a portal to a mysterious resort filled with metal buildings. They soon discover that the person who opened the portal for them has an ulterior motive.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth

1993

Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom poster
6.5

Nobita, Doraemon, and the rest travel to the far future, on an inhabited planet where humans and robots coexist. The Empress of the Robot Kingdom is plotting to strip the robot inhabitants of their emotions, so it's up to Nobita and his friends to stop the plan, while also helping a robot boy named Poko from getting caught in the middle.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom

2002

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West poster
7.2

As Nobita, Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo are auditioning for a role in their school's play based on "Journey to the West", the coveted role of Son Goku is hotly contested. After suggesting that the real Great Sage Equal to Heaven should play himself, knowing that the story is only a legend, Nobita and Doraemon go back in time to find their own fake Monkey King, but arrive in present day with the story's demons having taken over the world. The only way for things to go back to normal is for Nobita and pals to reenact the tale...for real!

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West

1988

Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen poster
7.4

Nobita is exhausted from having constant nightmares and pleads Doraemon to arrange a dream machine that will enable him to dream of anything he wishes for. As Nobita dreams of him and his friends in the roles of gallant musketeers, the dream world starts to break down due to a dark force, and Nobita will have to put his fantasy to the test and become a hero, both in the real world and imagined.

Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen

1994

Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil poster
7.0

Nobita and his friends under the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Gian and Suneo take Doraemon's underwater vehicle and travel through the Atlantic Ocean, trying to find a treasure ship.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil

1983

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars poster
7.2

As Nobita, Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo are making their own space movie, a fleeing bug-sized alien president makes his way to Earth, and needs the help of the kids and Doraemon to stop an oppressive dictatorship threatening his democracy.

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars

1985

Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds poster
7.1

Nobita, after wondering if Heaven truly exists, asks for Doraemon to take him there. When his robot pal suggests that they make their own Heaven, Nobita enlists Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo to help, but a war breaks out between two islands in the clouds that could have terrible environmental consequences if Nobita and Doraemon don't bring peace in time!

Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds

1992

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas poster
6.5

Nobita coaxes his friends to join him for a treasure hunt but an eerie event transports them to the past. However, their hunt for treasure is not easy as they come face-to-face with pirates.

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas

1998

Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey poster
7.4

Nobita, believing he and Doraemon had done a good deed by saving stray cats and dogs and sending them back in time by 300 million years, discover that the usage of Doraemon's Ray of Evolution had created a cat-and-dog-person society equal to Nobita's time. When an asteroid attack is set to hit the city, Nobita and his friends must save Doraemon and ease tensions between the two sides.

Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey

2004

Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters poster
7.2

After a typhoon hits Nobita's town, he and Doraemon discover a wind sprite who, with some help from Doraemon's 22nd-century tech, takes them and their friends to a fantastic world of wind and storm people. But the wind sprite, named Fuuko by Nobita, had brought them to her world for a reason, as her peoples' gods are battling, and Suneo might be a key player in their feud.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters

2003

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the World of Magic poster
6.9

Nobita, currently obsessed with fantasy fiction, wishes upon Doraemon's Moshimo-Box for the world to have real magic and sorcery. This doesn't go as he'd hoped, of course, and Nobita must navigate the strangely-bureaucratic magical world he'd made while also learning to conjure on his own in preparation for an attack by the underground-dwelling Demon World.

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the World of Magic

1984

Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet poster
6.7

Nobita and his friends get transported to an animal planet after a mysterious pink fog appears inside his house. They work together with the natives to find the origin of the fog.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet

1990

Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City poster
6.7

When Doraemon and Nobita win a tiny planet through a lottery, they make use of a screw to bring several toys to life and create a toy town.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City

1997

Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops poster
6.6

Doraemon and Nobita decide to build a perfect toy robot. However, their creation turns out to be a little more uncanny than an object of appreciation and wonder.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops

1986

Lupin the Third: Pilot Film poster
6.7

The first animated adaptation of the popular manga series, this pilot introduces the main characters of "Lupin the Third" with montages, presented through a short frame narrative illustrating a typical gang escape.

Lupin the Third: Pilot Film

1969

Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs poster
6.7

Nobita tries to prove to Doraemon and his friends that dinosaurs are still alive, and, after finding an underground cave, discovers a hollow earth civilization of knights and saurian steeds that Suneo must be rescued from.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs

1987

There Goes Our Hero: The Heat of the Pennant Race poster
6.0

The Pacific League pennant race continues to be fiercely contested. However, due to Tabuchi's continued poor performance, the Lions are on a losing streak. With Yasuda showing up at the stadium with his resume and Nomura suddenly becoming more energetic after being inspired by Dokaben's words, Tabuchi's presence is becoming less and less noticeable. Desperate, Manager Nemoto and Owner Tsumori try to highlight Tabuchi's charm by organizing "Tabuchi Day," but it ends in a complete failure. Just then, Mrs. Miyoko unexpectedly appears as a cheerleader.

There Goes Our Hero: The Heat of the Pennant Race

1980

Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World poster
7.4

To help him with his summer vacation project, Doraemon gives Nobita a kit which allows him to create a new world. The duo and their friends then go on a journey to witness the evolution of life.

Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World

1995

Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe poster
6.4

Nobita and his friends embark on a rescue mission to save Gian and Suneo, whom, after playing one of Doraemon's futuristic video games, are held captive by an evil alien force.

Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe

1999

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan poster
6.7

Nobita, thinking of running away from home, travels back in time with Doraemon and his pals to prehistoric Japan. However, a time paradox causes prehistoric boy Kukul to land in the modern day, so it's up to Doraemon and the rest to help the boy get back to the past while also defeating the mysterious shaman king, Giga-Zombie.

Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan

1989

Makoto-chan poster
9.0

A series of interconnected vignettes regarding Makoto Sawada, an energetic yet socially inept kindergartner, and his long-suffering family. Makoto strives to receive the title of his school's "Best Child" award, resulting in chaos and misunderstandings wherever he goes.

Makoto-chan

1980

Chibi Maruko-chan: My Favorite Song poster
7.6

Momoko's teacher asks the third grade to draw a picture based on their favorite song, to enter in a contest. She picks a song she's recently become fond of during music class, and is anxious to make a good drawing based on it. On her way to meet relatives in Shizuoka, Momoko meets Shoko Kimura, a university student who occasionally draws portraits and plans to participate in an art contest. Momoko and Shoko become close friends, and end up inspiring each other both in their own ways.

Chibi Maruko-chan: My Favorite Song

1992

Licca the Movie: Licca-chan to Yamaneko Hoshi no Tabi poster
4.0

Based on the popular Licca doll in Japan. Licca meets a mysterious cat. Licca goes on vacation with her father to a town in the mountains that is the site of a festival of the stars.

Licca the Movie: Licca-chan to Yamaneko Hoshi no Tabi

1994

There Goes Our Hero: After the Ball Game poster
6.0

Our Tabuchi-kun continues to underperform, both during the New Year's games and the exhibition games. With the 1979 pennant race decided, the Seibu Nine are playing out the season. There were rumors of Tabuchi being traded during the offseason, but he left for overseas training camp in good spirits. However, Yasuda followed him all the way to Arizona, and it seems that this year will be another bad one for him. Once the season started, he was easily outplayed by Nippon Ham's rookie Kida, and things did not look good for him. As expected, the Seibu Lions missed out on the championship, and the 1980 pennant race came to an end.

There Goes Our Hero: After the Ball Game

1980

Zorori the Naughty Hero: Super Adventure! poster
6.3

Zorori, Ishishi, and Noshishi, while out searching for treasure, come upon a town with a widespread illness. In order to make the secret medicine for it, they must set out on an adventure.

Zorori the Naughty Hero: Super Adventure!

2012

21 Emon Welcome to the Space poster
3.5

The story tells the adventures of the boy, 21 emon, engaged in the management of a hotel belonging to his family for years. In his problems, 21 emons is helped by the robot Gonsuke and the little alien Monga.

21 Emon Welcome to the Space

1981

There Goes Our Hero poster
6.0

The Seibu Lions baseball team makes it to the next round of a baseball tournament thanks to the heroic efforts of its star player, Tabuchi, but the next stage will involve hard work and cooperation.

There Goes Our Hero

1979

Uncle Remodelling Course poster
NR

An omnibus-style 11-part animation work for the theater, in which the members of the 800 OL Committee, representatives of OLs all over the country, summarize the realities of everyday men. Hundreds of OLs gathered by Chinami Shimizu, who worked at a computer-related company, observe the company's boss and other uncles while commuting and working. Classify it into genres such as commuting, tea, meetings, and adultery, and uncover the ecology of uncles.

Uncle Remodelling Course

1990

Go Go Toraemon poster
NR

Based on the real sports team Hanshin Tigers baseball team and their victory at the national professional championships.

Go Go Toraemon

1986

Nintama Rantaro the Movie poster
5.5

The Dokutake ninja steal a shipment of saltpeter from Shinbei's papa. They plan to use it to create medicine that will make them fly and become super-ninjas! Danzou, who's father was transporting the goods, stows away and is taken to the Dokutake's secret headquarters. When Shinbei informs the school, Yamada-sensei and Doi-sensei rush to help. But Hagumi decide to take matters into their own hands and try to rescue Danzou themselves. Things don't go according to plan, though, and soon they all need to be rescued too. Fortunately Rikichi, Yamada-sensei's cool son, is around to help out! In fact,before long everyone gets into the act! But can Rantarou and his friends stop Happousai before it's too late?

Nintama Rantaro the Movie

1996

Kenritsu Umisora Koukou Yakyuubu-in Yamashita Tarou-kun poster
4.0

Based on the popular 80's baseball manga by Koseki Kouji. Tarou Yamashita loves baseball, but he was always the worst player. However, through effort and dedication he begins to shine in the Umisora High team.

Kenritsu Umisora Koukou Yakyuubu-in Yamashita Tarou-kun

1988

Two Down Full Base poster
NR

Based on the children's book by Sunada Hiroshi. Musuke "Shorty" Sato is a shortstop for the local junior baseball team, the Eggs, who is asked by his mother to look after some money for her. He foolishly lends it to Tower and Dump, the school bad-boys, and must enlist the help of the pitcher's pretty little sister.

Two Down Full Base

1982

Wind Organ poster
NR

Animated film by Tsutomu Shibayama.

Wind Organ

1987

The Gutsy Frog: The Movie poster
NR

A film version of New Gutsy Frog directed by Tsutomu Shibayama in 1982.

The Gutsy Frog: The Movie

1982

The Monkey God Extermination poster
NR

A traveling monk discovers that three monsters have deceived a village into sacrificing a young girl to their appetites every autumn, for fear that their harvest will be ruined. The monsters leave a hint as to who could stop them: Hayatarō of Kōzenji in Shinano Province. Thus, the monk sets out to find this mysterious figure who could end the needless sacrifices for good.

The Monkey God Extermination

1976