Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Kazuhiro Furuhashi is a Japanese anime director and supervisor. He is amongst anime's most foremost directors, having directed the Rurouni Kenshin series, Zipang, GetBackers, Hunter × Hunter, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Dororo, and most recently, Spy × Family.
Early career and biography
He began his career as an animator with the anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura and subsequently into episode direction and as a director with Studio Deen's anime adaptation of another Rumiko Takahashi work, Ranma ½. Furuhashi is particularly well known for realistic portrayals and first person views shown in his directorial and storyboard works and has obtained a good reputation as a director. Furuhashi has often collaborated and supervised numerous extensive and high-quality anime productions with animators Norio Matsumoto, Atsuko Nakajima and Hirofumi Suzuki. Over the years, he has worked in numerous productions with Studio Deen and began his directorial career with the studio.Works
Anime television
- Urusei Yatsura
- Maison Ikkoku
- F
- Ranma ½ (first series and nettō-hen)
- Super Zugan
- Battle Fighters: Garō Densetsu
- Battle Fighters: Garō Densetsu 2
- Kuma no Pūtarō
- Rurouni Kenshin
- You're Under Arrest
- Hunter × Hunter
- GetBackers - direction assistance by Keitarō Motonaga
- Gunslinger Girl
- Genshiken
- Maria-sama ga Miteru
- Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~
- Kyō Kara Maō!
- Zipang
- Noein: Mō Hitori no Kimi e
- Binchō-tan
- Le Chevalier D'Eon
- Mononoke
- Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai
- Real Drive
- Amatsuki
- Kimi ni Todoke
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096
- Altair: A Record of Battles
- Neo Yokio
- Dororo
- Spy × Family
- Dog Signal
- ''Agents of the Four Seasons''
Anime film
OVA
- Chōjin Locke: Lord Reon
- Ranma ½: Nettō Utagassen
- Ranma ½: Kessen Tōgenkyō! Hanayome wo Torimodose!!
- Taiho Shichauzo
- Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal
- Reinō Tantei Miko
- Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- ''Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc''