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| name = Shūsuke Kaneko
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| yearsactive = 1978&ndash;present
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{{Nihongo|'''Shūsuke Kaneko'''|金子 修介|Kaneko Shūsuke|born June 8, 1955}} is a Japanese filmmaker.

{{Nihongo|'''Shusuke Kaneko'''|金子 修介|Kaneko Shūsuke|born 8 June 1955}} is a Japanese writer and director.


==Life and career==
==Life and career==
Shūsuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo on June 8, 1955.<ref name=skbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.shusuke-kaneko.com/eng/bio.html|title=Biography|publisher=Shusuke Kaneko Official Website|access-date=2015-05-31}}</ref> 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 attended [[Tokyo Gakugei University]].<ref name=skbio/> After graduation, he found a job at the major Japanese movie studio [[Nikkatsu]].<ref name=skbio/> By 1982 he was a screenwriter and assistant director for Nikkatsu's ''[[Roman Porno]]'' film series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0089260.htm|script-title=ja:金子修介|publisher=[[Japanese Movie Database|JMDB]]|language=ja|access-date=2015-05-31}}</ref><ref name=sharp236>{{cite book |last=Sharp |first=Jasper |title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema |year=2008 |publisher=FAB Press |location=Godalming, Surrey, England |isbn=978-1-903254-54-7| page=236}}</ref>


Kaneko made his debut as a director with Nikkatsu in February 1984 with ''[[Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging]]'', part of a long-running Nikkatsu series based on the works of erotic novelist [[Kōichirō Uno]].<ref name="sharp236" /><ref name="weisser447">{{cite book |last=Weisser |first=Thomas |author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films |year=1998 |publisher=Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications |location=Miami |isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=447–449 }}</ref> That work along with two other ''Roman Porno'' films he directed for Nikkatsu that year, {{nihongo|''OL Yurizoku 19-sai''|ＯＬ百合族・19才}} and {{nihongo|''Eve-chan-no hime''|イヴちゃんの姫}}, won him the Best New Director award at the 6th [[Yokohama Film Festival]].<ref name="weisser447" /><ref>{{cite web |date=2005-10-30|url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_shou.html|access-date=2015-05-31|publisher=Yokohama Film Festival homepage|script-title=ja:第６回ヨコハマ映画祭: １９８４年日本映画個人賞|language=ja}}</ref> The next year, his [[manga]]-based April 1985 movie for Nikkatsu, ''[[Minna Agechau]]'', took the award as the 9th Best Film of the year at the 7th [[Yokohama Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/07-1985/07_1985_best10.html |script-title=ja:１９８５年度 日本映画ベストテン|access-date= 2015-05-31|language= ja |publisher= [[Yokohama Film Festival]]}}</ref> In July 1986, still at Nikkatsu, he directed {{nihongo|''Mischievous 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.<ref>Weisser, pp. 272-273</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1986/dj001710.htm|script-title=ja:いたずらロリータ 後からバージン|publisher=[[Japanese Movie Database|JMDB]]|language=ja|access-date=2015-05-31}}</ref> Kaneko's final film for Nikkatsu was the appropriately named ''[[Last Cabaret]]'', the second to last of the studio's ''Roman 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.<ref>Weisser, p. 227</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=150440|script-title=ja:ラスト・キャバレー(1988)|publisher=AllCinema|access-date=2013-10-26|language=ja}}</ref>
===Nikkatsu===
Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo on June 8, 1955.<ref name=skbio>{{cite web|url=http://www.shusuke-kaneko.com/eng/bio.html|title=Biography|publisher=Shusuke Kaneko Official Website|accessdate=2015-05-31}}</ref> 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 attended [[Tokyo Gakugei University]].<ref name=skbio/> After graduation, he found a job at the major Japanese movie studio [[Nikkatsu]].<ref name=skbio/> By 1982 he was a screenwriter and assistant director for Nikkatsu's line of [[Pink film#Second wave (The Nikkatsu Roman Porno era 1971–1982)|''Roman porno'']] films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0089260.htm|script-title=ja:金子修介|publisher=[[Japanese Movie Database|JMDB]]|language=Japanese|accessdate=2015-05-31}}</ref><ref name=sharp236>{{cite book |last=Sharp |first=Jasper |title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema |year=2008 |publisher=FAB Press |location=Godalming, Surrey, England |isbn=978-1-903254-54-7| page=236}}</ref> He made his debut as a director with Nikkatsu in February 1984 with ''[[Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging]]'', part of a long-running Nikkatsu series based on the works of erotic novelist [[Kōichirō Uno]].<ref name=sharp236/><ref name=weisser447>{{cite book |last=Weisser |first=Thomas |author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films |year=1998 |publisher=Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications |location=Miami |isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=447–449 }}</ref> That work along with two other ''Roman porno'' films he directed for Nikkatsu that year, {{nihongo|''OL Yurizoku 19-sai''|ＯＬ百合族・19才}} and {{nihongo|''Eve-chan-no hime''|イヴちゃんの姫}}, won him the Best New Director award at the 6th [[Yokohama Film Festival]].<ref name=weisser447/><ref>{{cite web |date=2005-10-30|url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/06-1984/06_1984_shou.html|accessdate=2015-05-31|publisher=Yokohama Film Festival homepage|script-title=ja:第６回ヨコハマ映画祭: １９８４年日本映画個人賞|language=Japanese}}</ref> The next year, his [[manga]]-based April 1985 movie for Nikkatsu, ''[[Minna Agechau]]'', took the award as the 9th Best Film of the year at the 7th [[Yokohama Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/07-1985/07_1985_best10.html |script-title=ja:１９８５年度　日本映画ベストテン|accessdate= 2015-05-31|language= Japanese |publisher= [[Yokohama Film Festival]]}}</ref> In July 1986, still at Nikkatsu, he directed {{nihongo|''Mischievous 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.<ref>Weisser, pp. 272-273</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1986/dj001710.htm|script-title=ja:いたずらロリータ　後からバージン|publisher=[[Japanese Movie Database|JMDB]]|language=Japanese|accessdate=2015-05-31}}</ref> Kaneko's final film for Nikkatsu was the appropriately named ''[[Last Cabaret]]'', the second to last of the studio's ''Roman 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.<ref>Weisser, p. 227</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=150440|script-title=ja:ラスト・キャバレー(1988)|publisher=AllCinema|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}</ref>


The year 1988 marked a watershed in Kaneko's career as a director. At the [[10th Yokohama Film Festival]], he was given the Best Director award for his two films of 1988, the ''Roman Porno'' ''[[Last Cabaret]]'' for [[Nikkatsu]] and ''[[Summer Vacation 1999]]'', a mainstream film for the [[Shochiku]] studio.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/10-1988/10_1988_shou.html|script-title= ja:第１０回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８８年日本映画個人賞|access-date= 26 June 2014|work= homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai|language= ja|archive-date= 3 March 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175754/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/10-1988/10_1988_shou.html|url-status= dead}}</ref> Nikkatsu ceased their ''Roman Porno'' film line that year and filed for bankruptcy a few years later<ref>Sharp. pp. 129-130</ref> and Kaneko moved full-time into mainstream film.
===Mainstream film===
The year 1988 marked a watershed in Kaneko's career as a director. At the [[10th Yokohama Film Festival]], he was given the Best Director award for his two films of 1988, the ''Roman porno'' ''[[Last Cabaret]]'' for [[Nikkatsu]] and ''[[Summer Vacation 1999]]'', a mainstream film for the [[Shochiku]] studio.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/10-1988/10_1988_shou.html|script-title=ja:第１０回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８８年日本映画個人賞|accessdate= 26 June 2014|work= homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai|language= Japanese}}</ref> Nikkatsu ceased their ''Roman porno'' film line that year and filed for bankruptcy a few years later<ref>Sharp. pp. 129-130</ref> and Kaneko moved full-time into mainstream film. After creating the fun vampire flick ''[[My Soul Is Slashed]]'' in 1991, Kaneko, working for the first time in America, directed a segment of the horror anthology ''[[Necronomicon (film)|Necronomicon]]''.


He then got the chance to direct ''[[Gamera: Guardian of the Universe]]'' (1995), the first entry in the Heisei Gamera series. It was a huge critical success and led to a sequel: ''[[Gamera 2: Advent of Legion]]'' (1996), which was as critically acclaimed, if not more so, than the first film. Kaneko then went all out for the third and final film in the trilogy: ''[[Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris]]'' (1999), creating a film which many fans have given great praise, in both Japan and the West. He then directed the horror film ''[[Pyrokinesis]]'' (2000) before returning to the kaiju genre for ''Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack'' (2001). In 2005, he directed the sequel to Ryuhei Kitamura's sword film ''[[Azumi (film)|Azumi]]'': ''[[Azumi 2: Death or Love]]'' and his next film, a horror flick entitled ''God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand'' was released in Japan in 2006.
During the mid-to-late 1990s, Kaneko received widespread acclaim and recognition for directing the ''[[kaiju]]'' films [[Gamera: Guardian of the Universe|''Gamera: Guardian of the Universe'']] (1995), [[Gamera 2: Attack of Legion|''Gamera 2: Attack of Legion'']] (1996), and [[Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris|''Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris'']] (1999). The following decade, he directed [[Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack|''Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack'']] (2001), which is now regarded as one of the greatest ''Godzilla'' films ever made.


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Notes
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Minna Agechau]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 1988
| ''[[Last Cabaret]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| ''[[Summer Vacation 1999]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Who Do I Choose?]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Hong Kong Paradise]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 1991
| ''[[My Soul Is Slashed]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
| ''[[No Worries on the Recruit Front]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 1993
| ''[[Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| ''[[Necronomicon (film)|Necronomicon]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| Segment "The Cold"
|-
| 1994
| ''[[It's a Summer Vacation Everyday]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Gamera: Guardian of the Universe]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Gamera 2: Attack of Legion]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Haunted School 3]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Pyrokinesis (film)|Pyrokinesis]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Azumi 2: Death or Love]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
|rowspan=3| 2006
| ''[[Death Note (2006 film)|Death Note]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| ''[[God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| ''[[Death Note 2: The Last Name]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Pride (2009 film)|Pride]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Messiah (2011 film)|Messiah]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2012
| ''The Centenarian Clock''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2013
| ''The Sacrifice Dilemma''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| ''Jellyfish''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Danger Dolls]]''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2016
| ''Scanner''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2017
| ''Linking Love''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| ''Matchmaking Cruise''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2018
| ''Xi Bo Li Ya feng yun''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2021
| ''Nobutora''
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
|''[[Iké Boys]]''
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| Actor (Japanese producer)
|-
| 2022
| ''When the Rain Falls''<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/97268/|title= 百合の雨音|access-date= September 20, 2022|work= eiga.com}}</ref>
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
| 2024
| ''Gold Boy''<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/100263/|title= ゴールド・ボーイ|access-date= September 22, 2023|work= eiga.com}}</ref>
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
|
|-
|}


'''Assistant director'''
===Director===
* ''[[Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging]]'' (1984)
* ''From Orion's Testimony: Formula for Murder'' (1978)
* ''[[Minna Agechau]]'' (1985)
* ''Rape and Death of a Housewife'' (1978)
* ''[[Last Cabaret]]'' (1988)
* ''Koko dai panikku'' (1978)
* ''[[Summer Vacation 1999]]'' (1988)
* ''Female Teacher Hunting'' (1982)
* ''[[Who Do I Choose?]]'' (1989)
* ''Gigolo: A Docu-Drama'' (1982)
* ''[[Hong Kong Paradise]]'' (1990)
* ''Ecstasy Sisters'' (1982)
* ''[[My Soul Is Slashed]]'' (1991)
* ''Oh! Takarazuka'' (1982)
* ''[[No Worries on the Recruit Front]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Necronomicon (film)|Necronomicon]]'' (Segment "The Cold") (1993)
* ''[[It's a Summer Vacation Everyday]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Gamera: Guardian of the Universe]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Gamera 2: Attack of Legion]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Haunted School 3]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Pyrokinesis (film)|Pyrokinesis]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack]]'' (2001)
* ''[[Azumi 2: Death or Love]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Death Note (2006 film)|Death Note]]'' (2006)
* ''[[God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Death Note 2: The Last Name]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Pride (2009 film)|Pride]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Messiah (2011 film)|Messiah]]'' (2011)
* ''[[The Centenarian Clock]]'' (2012)
* ''[[The Sacrifice Dilemma]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Jellyfish (2013 film)|Jellyfish]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Danger Dolls]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Scanner (2016 film)|Scanner]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Linking Love]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Matchmaking Cruise]]'' (2017)

===Assistant director===
* ''[[From Orion's Testimony: Formula for Murder]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Rape and Death of a Housewife]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Koko dai panikku]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Female Teacher Hunting]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Gigolo: A Docu-Drama]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Ecstasy Sisters]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Oh! Takarazuka]]'' (1982)
* ''[[The Family Game]]'' (1983)
* ''[[The Family Game]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Girl Rape Case: Red Shoes]]'' (1983)
* ''Girl Rape Case: Red Shoes'' (1983)
* ''[[Madam Scandal - Final Scandal: Madam Likes It Hard]]'' (1983)
* ''Madam Scandal - Final Scandal: Madam Likes It Hard'' (1983)
* ''[[Main Theme (1984 film)|Main Theme]]'' (1984)
* ''Main Theme'' (1984)

===Writer===
* ''[[Who Do I Choose?]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Hong Kong Paradise]]'' (1990)
* ''[[My Soul Is Slashed]]'' (1991)
* ''[[No Worries on the Recruit Front]]'' (1991)
* ''[[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)
* ''[[Ultraman Max]]'' (2005)


==References==
==References==
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* http://www.tohokingdom.com/people/shusuke_kaneko.htm
* {{IMDb name|0437526}}
* {{IMDb name|0437526}}

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Revision as of 01:01, 7 February 2024

Shūsuke Kaneko
cropped headshot of Kaneko at Tokyo International Film Festival 2023
Kaneko in 2023
Born (1955-06-08) June 8, 1955 (age 68)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)Film director, Screenwriter
Years active1978–present
Websitewww.shusuke-kaneko.com

Shūsuke Kaneko (金子 修介, Kaneko Shūsuke, born June 8, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker.

Life and career

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 attended Tokyo Gakugei University.[1] After graduation, he found a job at the major Japanese movie studio Nikkatsu.[1] By 1982 he was a screenwriter and assistant director for Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series.[2][3]

Kaneko made his debut as a director with Nikkatsu in February 1984 with Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging, part of a long-running Nikkatsu series based on the works of erotic novelist Kōichirō Uno.[3][4] That work along with two other Roman Porno films he directed for Nikkatsu that year, OL Yurizoku 19-sai (ＯＬ百合族・19才) and Eve-chan-no hime (イヴちゃんの姫), won him the Best New Director award at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival.[4][5] The next year, his manga-based April 1985 movie for Nikkatsu, Minna Agechau, took the award as the 9th Best Film of the year at the 7th Yokohama Film Festival.[6] In July 1986, still at Nikkatsu, he directed Mischievous 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 named Last Cabaret, the second to last of the studio's Roman 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 the 10th Yokohama Film Festival, he was given the Best Director award for his two films of 1988, the Roman Porno Last Cabaret for Nikkatsu and Summer Vacation 1999, a mainstream film for the Shochiku studio.[11] Nikkatsu ceased their Roman 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 the kaiju films Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995), Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996), and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999). The following decade, he directed Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), which is now regarded as one of the greatest Godzilla films ever made.

Filmography

Year Title Director Writer Notes
1984 Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging Yes No
1985 Minna Agechau Yes No
1988 Last Cabaret Yes No
Summer Vacation 1999 Yes No
1989 Who Do I Choose? Yes Yes
1990 Hong Kong Paradise Yes Yes
1991 My Soul Is Slashed Yes Yes
No Worries on the Recruit Front Yes Yes
1993 Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan Yes No
Necronomicon Yes No Segment "The Cold"
1994 It's a Summer Vacation Everyday Yes No
1995 Gamera: Guardian of the Universe Yes No
1996 Gamera 2: Attack of Legion Yes No
1997 Haunted School 3 Yes No
1999 Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris Yes Yes
2000 Pyrokinesis Yes No
2001 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack Yes Yes
2005 Azumi 2: Death or Love Yes No
2006 Death Note Yes No
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand Yes No
Death Note 2: The Last Name Yes Yes
2009 Pride Yes No
2011 Messiah Yes No
2012 The Centenarian Clock Yes No
2013 The Sacrifice Dilemma Yes No
Jellyfish Yes No
2014 Danger Dolls Yes No
2016 Scanner Yes No
2017 Linking Love Yes No
Matchmaking Cruise Yes No
2018 Xi Bo Li Ya feng yun Yes No
2021 Nobutora Yes No
Iké Boys No No Actor (Japanese producer)
2022 When the Rain Falls[13] Yes No
2024 Gold Boy[14] Yes No

Assistant director

  • From Orion's Testimony: Formula for Murder (1978)
  • Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978)
  • Koko dai panikku (1978)
  • Female Teacher Hunting (1982)
  • Gigolo: A Docu-Drama (1982)
  • Ecstasy Sisters (1982)
  • Oh! Takarazuka (1982)
  • The Family Game (1983)
  • Girl Rape Case: Red Shoes (1983)
  • Madam Scandal - Final Scandal: Madam Likes It Hard (1983)
  • Main Theme (1984)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Biography". Shusuke Kaneko Official Website. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
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