Shinji Mikami directed the 1999 video game Resident Evil.
Resident Evil , known as in Japan , is a survival horror video game-based media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara and owned by the video game company Capcom . Shinji Mikami . He directed the first installment of the survival horror series Resident Evil in 1996 and the first installment of Dino Crisis in 1999 .