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Shūsuke Kaneko | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Kaneko in 2023 | |
| Born | (1955-06-08)June 8, 1955 (age 70) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation(s) | Film director,Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Website | www |
Shūsuke Kaneko (金子 修介,Kaneko Shūsuke; born June 8, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker.
Shūsuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo on June 8, 1955.[1] According to the biography on his official website Kaneko was interested in science fiction, particularly Godzilla and Gamera films, from a young age. He became involved in amateur film making in his teen years, but majored in education when he attendedTokyo Gakugei University.[1] After graduation, he found a job at the major Japanese movie studioNikkatsu.[1] By 1982 he was a screenwriter and assistant director for Nikkatsu'sRoman Porno film series.[2][3]
Kaneko made his debut as a director with Nikkatsu in February 1984 withKōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging, part of a long-running Nikkatsu series based on the works of erotic novelistKōichirō Uno.[3][4] That work along with two otherRoman Porno films he directed for Nikkatsu that year,OL Yurizoku 19-sai (ＯＬ百合族・19才) andEve-chan-no hime (イヴちゃんの姫), won him the Best New Director award at the 6thYokohama Film Festival.[4][5] The next year, hismanga-based April 1985 movie for Nikkatsu,Minna Agechau, took the award as the 9th Best Film of the year at the 7thYokohama Film Festival.[6] In July 1986, still at Nikkatsu, he directedMischievous Lolita: Attacking the Virgin From Behind (いたずらロリータ 後からバージン,Itazura Lolita: Ushirokara virgin), which despite its strange title, was a fantasy about a sex-doll coming to life as a woman.[7][8] Kaneko's final film for Nikkatsu was the appropriately namedLast Cabaret, the second to last of the studio'sRoman Porno series. The film, released in April 1988, about a cabaret forced to close has been taken as a metaphor for the demise of the studio itself.[9][10]
The year 1988 marked a watershed in Kaneko's career as a director. At the10th Yokohama Film Festival, he was given the Best Director award for his two films of 1988, theRoman PornoLast Cabaret forNikkatsu andSummer Vacation 1999, a mainstream film for theShochiku studio.[11] Nikkatsu ceased theirRoman Porno film line that year and filed for bankruptcy a few years later[12] and Kaneko moved full-time into mainstream film.
During the mid-to-late 1990s, Kaneko received widespread acclaim and recognition for directing thekaiju filmsGamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995),Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996), andGamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999). The following decade, he directedGodzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), which is now regarded as one of the greatestGodzilla films ever made.
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