Katsuro Onoue

Katsuro Onoue Born June 4, 1960 Kagoshima, Japan Occupation Director, special effects director, visual effects supervisor First work Bicrosser (TV 1985) Notable work Shin Godzilla (2016)

Katsuro Onoue (尾上 克郎,   Onoue Katsurō) is a Japanese special effects director and VFX supervisor. A frequent collaborator of Shinji Higuchi, he has worked in special effects since the 1980s and has been involved in some capacity with tokusatsu projects from each of the genre's leading studios. Most notably, he served as the director of special effects on Higuchi's live action Attack on Titan films; associate director, VFX creative director, and second unit director on Shin Godzilla; and associate director and cinematographer on Shin Ultraman.

Selected filmography

• Ultraman vs. Kamen Rider (1993) - Storywriter / wire operator
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) - Wire operator / second special effects unit chief
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) - Assistant wire operator
• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) - Assistant wire operator
• Sinking of Japan (2006) - Associate director / special effects supervisor
• Geharha: The Dark and Long Haired Monster (2009) - Special thanks
• Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012) - Associate director / special effects supervisor
• Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 (2015) - Director of special effects
• Attack on Titan: Signal to Strike Back (TV 2015) - Director [episode 2]
• Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 (2015) - Director of special effects
• Shin Godzilla (2016) - Associate director / VFX creative director / B unit director & special effects supervisor
• Ultraman Z (TV 2020) - Director of special effects [episodes 9-10]
• Ultraman Taiga the Movie (2020) - VFX supervisor
• Shin Ultraman (2022) - Associate director / cinematographer [with Masayuki, Ikki Todoroki, Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno, Linto Ueda]

Actor

• Kaiju Defeat COVID! (web 2020) as himself [episode 1]

Gallery

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  Onoue (left) and Toshio Miike (right)

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