Katsuro Onoue
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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
Director of special effects
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) [2nd unit]
- Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 (2015)
- Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 (2015)
- Shin Godzilla (2016)[a]
- Ultraman Z (TV 2020) [episodes 9-10]
- Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Associate director
- Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
- Sinking of Japan (2006)
- Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012)
- Shin Godzilla (2016)
- Shin Ultraman (2022)
- Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Special effects supervisor
- Sakuya (2000)
- Sinking of Japan (2006)
- Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012)
- Shin Godzilla (2016) [2nd unit]
Miscellaneous
- Ultraman vs. Kamen Rider (1993) - Storywriter / wire operator
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) - Wire operator
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) - Assistant wire operator
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) - Assistant wire operator
- Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005) - Associate director of special effects
- Geharha: The Dark and Long Haired Monster (2009) - Special thanks
- Attack on Titan: Signal to Strike Back (TV 2015) - Director [episode 2]
- Shin Godzilla (2016) - VFX creative director
- The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (2020) - Project Capsule Kaiju[b]
- Ultraman Taiga the Movie (2020) - VFX supervisor
- Shin Ultraman (2022) - Cinematographer[c]
- Shin Kamen Rider (2023) - Cinematographer
Actor
- Kaiju Defeat COVID! (web 2020) as himself [episode 1]
Gallery
Onoue (left) and Toshio Miike (right)
Notes
- ↑ Director of the second unit ("B unit"), which shot practical effects sequences.
- ↑ With Kiyotaka Taguchi, Takanori Tsujimoto, Kazuhiro Nakagawa, and Shinji Higuchi.
- ↑ With Masayuki, Ikki Todoroki, Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno, and Linto Ueda.
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