Shusuke KanekoFilmography

Occupation:
Director, Screenwriter

  • Puraido

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Hikari Mitsushima

    Synopsis: Two women who both have talent and a dream fight for their place in the spotlight in this Japanese melodrama adapted from a popular manga. Shio (Stephanie) is a beautiful young woman from a wealthy family who is studying voice and wants to sing with the opera. Moe (Hikari Mitsushima), a Read More

    2009

  • Death Note II: The Last Name

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Erika Toda, Shunji Fujimura, Takeshi Kaga

    Synopsis: Director Shusuke Kaneko picks up right where Death Note left off with this sequel to the box-office phenomenon that finds Light finally giving in to his dark side. In the first Death Note, Light (Tatsuya Fujiwara) focused his wrath on the criminal element, but these days the troubled teen is a bit Read More

    10/15/08

  • Death Note

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Shigeki Hosokawa, Erika Toda

    Synopsis: Released into Japanese theaters in 2006, director Shusuke Kaneko's stylish adaptation of the best selling manga quickly trampled The Da Vinci Code on Japanese screens and subsequently and set box office records in Hong Kong and all across Asia. The plot picks up as aimless law student Light Yagami Read More

    2006

  • God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This vicious, visceral Japanese horror film is based on Kazuo Umezu's popular manga. In this film, a young boy named Sou has a unique gift: he can see other people's sins. He has a vision of a girl being brutally attacked, but he isn't safe from her killer. Sou begins to bleed profusely, and it is Read More

    2006

  • Azumi 2

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Chiaki Kuriyama, Yuma Ishigaki

    Synopsis: The effects of schizophrenia reverberate through three generations of educated Indian women when a woman is diagnosed with the psychotic disorder and those around her, including her westernized daughter, struggle to maintain normal lives. As Azumi 2 gets underway, remaining assassins Azumi and Read More

    2005

  • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After sandblasting away years of camp and bad scripts from the Gamera franchise to form a couple of tight-scripted, vastly entertaining flicks, Shusuke Kaneko gives the same treatment to the granddaddy of kaiju eiga characters: Godzilla. The film opens with Godzilla waking up from his Read More

    2001

  • Pyrokinesis

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: An unwitting superheroine has an unusual way of dealing with those who have earned her wrath in a sci-fi tinged action drama from Japan. Junko (Akiko Yada) is a woman in her early twenties who discovers she has a remarkable power -- she can set things on fire with the powers of her mind. Junko's Read More

    2000

  • Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Shinobu Nakayama, Ai Maeda, Ayako Fujitani, Senri Yamasaki

    Synopsis: Daei studio's answer to Toho's wildly popular Godzilla, Gamera -- a monstrous fire-breathing turtle -- appeared numerous films from 1966 until 1971. In 1995, he made his triumphant return with Gamera Daikaiju Kuchu Kessen (Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe) which featured slick new special Read More

    1999

  • F

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Shusuke Kaneko directs this Sleepless in Seattle-style romantic comedy about ballet, talk radio, and a broken foot. Hikaru (Michiko Hada) is a serious-minded career woman who is about to be married to a dependable though profoundly dull individual named Shogo (Hironobu Nomura). While the two are Read More

    1998

  • Gamera 2: Attack of Legion

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A freak electrical storm near Sapporo, Japan rains down chaos, leaving Gamera the only hope for the desperate population in this latest installment of the long-running kaiju series. As meteors and lightning crash to the earth, the citizens of Sapporo are shocked to discover that the sky has Read More

    1996

  • Gamera: The Guardian of The Universe

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Tsuyoshi Ihara, Akira Onodera, Ayako Fujitani, Shinobu Nakayama

    Synopsis: Prehistoric and Intergalactic megamonsters beware! Japan's jet-propelled, flying giant turtle returns, after a 14-year absence in this deliberately retro Japanese sci-fi fantasy, to defeat his giant nemesis Gyaos and to keep the world safe for children everywhere. The trouble begins when a Read More

    1995

  • Mainichi ga Natsumiyasumi

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Taking a break from directing Gamera movies, Shusuke Kaneko spins this wacky family comedy based on a girls manga by Yumiko Oshima. The film centers on the Rinkaiji family, who is the picture of an upwardly mobile upper-middle class family living in a Tokyo bedroom community. Mr. Rinkaiji (Shiro Sano Read More

    1994

  • Sotsygyo Rokyo: Nihon kara Kimashita

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Before he made a name for himself spinning tales of mass destruction with his updated version of Gamera, Shusuke Kaneko directed this loopy comic fantasy. Yasuo Miki (Yuji Oda) is the dweeb of all dweebs. Though he has dreams of becoming a pop star, he has all of the confidence and elan of a Read More

    1993

  • Summer Vacation: 1999

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Tomoko Otakara, Miyuki Nakano

    Synopsis: This poetic independent Japanese drama uses girls to play the young teenaged boys in the story, reminiscent of a traditional dramatic custom known as Takurazuka. The story concerns three friends who have remained at their boarding school over the summer break in order to further their studies Read More

    3/23/90

  • The Family Game

    Crew: First Assistant Director

    Actors: Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa, Junichi Tsujita

    Synopsis: Co-produced by the Art Theatre of Japan, The Family Game explores the coming-of-age (so to speak) of a traditional Japanese family. Ichirota Miyagawa is the youngest member of a clan that dwells in a house so small you virtually have to go outside to change your mind. Miyagawa gets his first taste Read More

    1983

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