Shusuke Kaneko

Shusuke Kaneko Shusuke Kaneko Born June 8, 1955 Tokyo, Japan First work Gamera: Guardian of the Universe Notable work Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Shusuke Kaneko (金子 修介,   Kaneko Shūsuke) is a Japanese director and screenwriter.

Selected Filmography

Director

• Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
• Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1996)
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
• Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy (TV 2004) [episodes 3 and 7]
• Ultraman Max (TV 2005-2006) [episodes 1, 2, 11, 12, 35, and 36]

Writer

• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

Special Effects

• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) - Consultant
• Ultraman Max (TV 2005-2006) [episodes 11 and 12] - Director

Actor

• Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy (TV 2004) [episode 9]

Trivia

• His wife Nanako Kaneko played several minor roles in the Heisei Gamera Trilogy; first as a zookeeper in the first film and as an interviewer in the third.
• He and Kazunori Itō were the original staffs of the 1990 film Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars, but the members were later changed while Shinji Higuchi was included. These members later gathered for Heisei Gamera Trilogy.
  • Kaneko and Highchi are two of few who had ever created both Gamera and Godzilla films.
• In Japan, many have hypothesized that Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera Trilogy could have inspired Godzilla and Mutos in the MonsterVerse series due to similarities in characters' backgrounds. In an interview on Kinema Junpo, Kaneko himself admitted this and commented as "Gareth... of course he must have watched Gamera. It's alright though.".
  • The trait represented in the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters where monsters had inspired humanity to create mystical creatures from the real world, is similar to the cases seen in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera Trilogy and his Godzilla. An idea for Ghidorah to battle Godzilla underwater, as seen in the concept arts released at Tokyo Comic-Con, was also originally introduced to the series within Kaneko's work.

External Links

• 1996 interview by Steve Ryfle
• 2002 interview by Ed Godziszewski and Norman England
• Interview published in Fangoria #173 (June 1998)