Directing

Shinji Ushiro

Place of birth

Hiroshima, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

5 titles

Shinji Ushiro (ウシロ シンジ, Ushiro Shinji, real name: 後 信治) is a Japanese anime director from Hiroshima.

Known for

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie poster
7.6

When the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan 60 years to the past, when the Yo-Kai Watch was first invented by Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel Adams, while he was a boy. Together, the 2 boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-Kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

2014

Yo-kai Watch The Movie 2: Lord Enma and the Stories, Nyan! poster
7.9

When Keita frees Whisper, a ghost-like yōkai, from 190 years of imprisonment, Whisper pledges to protect Keita from supernatural dangers. Whisper also gives Keita a watch that allows Keita to see other yōkai. Together with the twin-tailed cat spirit Jibanyan, they encounter lots of yōkai-related problems and solve them.

Yo-kai Watch The Movie 2: Lord Enma and the Stories, Nyan!

2015

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! poster
7.2

A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow!

2016

Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King poster
6.9

When a meteor is about to approach Earth, Summer Adams, Cole and Bruno meet up and work together to stop the Onimaro invasion with the power of a new Yo-kai Watch and Yo-kai that can change between Lightside and Shadowside forms.

Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King

2017

Battle Break poster
NR

Based on Bandai's trading figure battle game. The story of Battle Break is set 100 years into the future, when four superpowers - Earth's mechanized Empire, the fused hybrid beast/human resistance fighters of Gaia, the genetically engineered creatures of Coeurl, and the galactic Alien alliance - clash in the solar system.

Battle Break

2011

Behind the camera

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie poster
7.6

When the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan 60 years to the past, when the Yo-Kai Watch was first invented by Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel Adams, while he was a boy. Together, the 2 boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-Kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

2014

Yo-kai Watch The Movie 2: Lord Enma and the Stories, Nyan! poster
7.9

When Keita frees Whisper, a ghost-like yōkai, from 190 years of imprisonment, Whisper pledges to protect Keita from supernatural dangers. Whisper also gives Keita a watch that allows Keita to see other yōkai. Together with the twin-tailed cat spirit Jibanyan, they encounter lots of yōkai-related problems and solve them.

Yo-kai Watch The Movie 2: Lord Enma and the Stories, Nyan!

2015

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! poster
7.2

A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow!

2016

Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King poster
6.9

When a meteor is about to approach Earth, Summer Adams, Cole and Bruno meet up and work together to stop the Onimaro invasion with the power of a new Yo-kai Watch and Yo-kai that can change between Lightside and Shadowside forms.

Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King

2017

Battle Break poster
NR

Based on Bandai's trading figure battle game. The story of Battle Break is set 100 years into the future, when four superpowers - Earth's mechanized Empire, the fused hybrid beast/human resistance fighters of Gaia, the genetically engineered creatures of Coeurl, and the galactic Alien alliance - clash in the solar system.

Battle Break

2011