Shusuke_Kaneko

Shusuke Kaneko

Shusuke Kaneko

Japanese film director

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

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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

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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. [1]
    "Biography". Shusuke Kaneko Official Website. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  2. [2]
    金子修介 (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  3. [3]
    Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Godalming, Surrey, England: FAB Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
  4. [4]
    Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 447–449. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  5. [5]
    第６回ヨコハマ映画祭: １９８４年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival homepage. 2005-10-30. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
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    １９８５年度 日本映画ベストテン (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  7. [7]
    Weisser, pp. 272-273
  8. [8]
    いたずらロリータ 後からバージン (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  9. [9]
    Weisser, p. 227
  10. [10]
    ラスト・キャバレー(1988) (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  11. [11]
    第１０回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８８年日本映画個人賞. homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  12. [12]
    Sharp. pp. 129-130
  13. [13]
    "百合の雨音". eiga.com. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  14. [14]
    "ゴールド・ボーイ". eiga.com. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
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