Akira Shimizu

DirectorVisual EffectsDirecting 1971–2025 (54 year career)

7.6 avg rating

Highest Rated

Cackling Kitarou

1985 · Animation Director

10.0

Cackling Kitarou

1985 · Key Animation

10.0

Eat-Man '98

1998 · Director

9.2

Known For

Film

Naruto Shippūden

Director

Film

Naruto

Director

Film

Black Clover

Director

Film

Bleach

Director

Film

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

Director

Film

Redo of Healer

Director

Film

Rurouni Kenshin

Director

Film

The Apothecary Diaries

Director

Filmography

Crew (34)

Movies (1)

Ogami Matsugorou

1989

Second Unit Director

Television (33)

Catch Me at the Ballpark!

Director

Tonbo!

Director

The Apothecary Diaries

2023

Director

8.6

Ninjala the Animation

Director

CUE!

Director

Redo of Healer

Director

GeGeGe no Kitaro

Director

MEGALOBOX

Director

Black Clover

Director

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

2017

Director

7.8

Convenience Store Boy Friends

Director

No Game No Life

Director

HaNaYaMaTa

Director

The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

Director

Naruto Shippūden

Director

Blue Dragon

Director

Sugar Sugar Rune

Director

Bleach

Director

Gilgamesh

Director

Naruto

Director

Saiyuki

Director

Sol Bianca: The Legacy

Key Animation

Initial D

Director

Eat-Man '98

Director

Rurouni Kenshin

Director

Zenki

Director

Street Fighter II: V

Key Animation

Karasu Tengu Kabuto

Director

Jushin Liger

Key Animation

Cackling Kitarou

Animation Director

Cackling Kitarou

Key Animation

Fist of the North Star

Key Animation

Lupin the 3rd

Director