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Toshi Hiruma

American film producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ16225996
Source-derived summary

Toshiyuki "Toshi" Hiruma (比留間 敏之, Hiruma Toshiyuki) is a Japanese film producer, who has produced Batman: Gotham Knight, The Batman, Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.!, Daffy Duck for President, Justice League and What's New, Scooby-Doo?. He directed many animated movies in the 1990s with fellow director Takashi Masunaga for Jetlag Productions.

TV Series

Lupin the 3rd Part II (1979)

The New Adventures of Gigantor (1980)

Jarinko Chie (1981)

Inspector Gadget (1983) - TMS Entertainment/Telecom Animation Film, K.K. DIC

Rainbow Brite (1984) - TMS Entertainment/Telecom Animation Film, K.K. DIC

Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats (1984) - TMS Entertainment/Telecom Animation Film, K.K. DIC

Galaxy High School (1986) - TMS Entertainment/Telecom Animation Film

Bionic Six (1987) - TMS Entertainment/Telecom Animation Film

Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates (1990) - TMS Entertainment/Telecom Animation Film

King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (1992)

The Adventures of T-Rex (1992)

The Bots Master (1993)

Project G.e.e.K.e.R. (1996) - Hanho Heung-Up

Extreme Ghostbusters (1997) - Koko Enterprises

Men in Black: The Series (1997) - Mook, Koko Enterprises

Channel Umptee-3 (1997) - Koko Enterprises

Godzilla: The Series (1998) - DR Movie, Dong Woo Animation, Lotto, New Millennium, Samwon

Dragon Tales (1999 Season1) - Big Star, Dongwoo, Lotto, Sunwoo, Wang Film, Yearim, Yeson

Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1999) - DR Movie, Dong Woo Animation, Koko Enterprises, Lotto Animation, Samwon

Jackie Chan Adventures (2000 Season1) - Dong Woo Animation, Rough Draft Korea

Movie

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Chie the Brat (1981)

SANSHIRO (1981※TV Movie)

Ohayō! Spank (1982)

Video

Cinderella (?

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Toshi Hiruma” as american film producer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1980, 1981, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-09. The account is most persuasive where Toshi, Hiruma and American can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as american film producer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16225996. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1983.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Toshi Hiruma”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Toshi Hiruma primary sources, Toshi Hiruma archive and Toshi research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Toshi Hiruma”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from Toshi Hiruma” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.