premise: Shinji Mikami was the director of Dino Crisis.
hypothesis: Dino Crisis (video game) . It is the first installment in the Dino Crisis series and was developed by the same team behind Capcom 's Resident Evil series , including director Shinji Mikami , and shares many similarities with it . 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 .