Shusuke Kaneko Trailers
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Shusuke Kaneko (born June 8, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter. Kaneko began his career at Nikkatsu and would serve as a writer for film and anime. Establishing himself as an up and coming director, Kaneko would win accolades at various film festivals. His film Summer Vacation 1999, would garner him his first award for best director at the Yokohama Film Festival. As a lifelong fan of the original Godzilla films, Kaneko would be chosen as the director for Daiei's revival of the Gamera franchise. Kaneko's work on the Gamera films were met with unprecedented critical acclaim. He would be honored with the Director's Award at the 17th Yokohama Film Festival for his work on Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. This film would also go on to top Kinema Junpo's best films of the year list and earn Blue Ribbon awards for best Director and Best supporting actress. Kaneko would go on to direct the most successful Godzilla film of the millennium series as well as the live action adaptations of Death Note. Kaneko has also contributed to various documentaries on kaiju films, particularly those of Ishiro Honda, championing their artistry and imagination
Most Popular Shusuke Kaneko Trailers
Total trailers found: 70
28 October 2017
Struggling high schooler Miyui Mashio is transported back to 1991, where she attends school with her quarreling parents—realizing she must form an idol group with her mother to help her parents fall in love, or risk never being born.
01 June 1991
A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire.
28 August 1982
Frustrated by claims that he raped a fellow student, Daisuke drops out of high school before a verdict is reached, lashing out at Shimako, a sympathetic teacher who believes he should stay and prove his innocence.
12 July 1986
A drunk office worker spots a discarded doll in the trash and decides to bring it home. When the doll mysteriously comes to life as a normal sized but naked young woman his life gets very complicated.
17 June 2006
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer.
17 February 1984
A high school girl has a crush on the leader of the girls tennis team. But off court she always ends up scoring with the boys.
27 July 1984
Two young women, Minako and Naomi, have been friends and lovers since their school days, and are now living as roommates in the city, working together for a large company.
24 December 1982
Takarazuka is a gym teacher who wants to work in a girls high school in the worst way, and of course, for the worst reasons.
14 July 1984
A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.
06 March 1999
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken.
11 July 2014
A quartet of cute idol singers moonlight as butt-kicking action heroines. When extraterrestrial invaders threaten the safety of the Earth, after an earthquake unleashes them from an alternate dimension, the Danger Dolls become humanity's only hope for survival.
10 June 2000
Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will.
18 November 2017
The movie was inspired by Hiroshima prefectural government's marital activity "Koinowa Project" which is practiced as part of countermeasures against the declining birthplace.
11 March 1995
A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi.
22 June 1991
New graduates Ohara, Kitamachi and Tachikawa take part in the battle of job-hunting, so as big companies recruiting talents and potentials.
01 November 1993
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
22 June 2006
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself.
12 July 1996
A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth.
17 January 2009
Shio Asami (Stephanie) was brought up in a wealthy family whose mother is a prominent opera singer. However, the bankruptcy of her father’s business forced her to give up becoming an opera singer.
15 December 2001
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana.
23 December 1983
A lusty woman runs a dormitory and a pawn shop for needy male college students. The only payment she asks for is a little nightly servicing.
22 July 1983
The daughter of divorced parents lives with her mother in Tokyo. On the weekends, she takes the train to her hometown of Koga, in Ibaraki Prefecture, to visit her father and old friends.
28 October 2006
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem.
28 April 1990
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events.
14 October 2022
Hazuki clips her nails every time it rains. She caressed 'her' with these fingers back then. Hazuki, an editor of a publishing company now, is attracted by Shiori, the head of planning.
20 October 2012
A film by Shûsuke Kaneko
15 October 1982
Kabukicho, Shinjuku, the number one entertainment district in Japan. There are professional gigolos who make this sleepless city their base and get what they want, from money and women to desire.
20 February 1999
Hideaki Anno's documentary about the making of Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. From concept to film, the documentary is a video diary of the film's production.
14 July 2013
In the final act, the students agonize over their seemingly inevitable fate as they try to figure out why they've been trapped in this gruesome game.
14 March 1998
A love story between a timid woman and frustrated ballet dancer.
14 July 2013
A high school graduating class is forced into a sadistic game threatening certain death to all unless they offer one of their own as sacrifice.
18 December 2010
10 years ago Hide, a college student, meets Yuki Gakuko, an older woman, through work. They become lovers with Hide falling hard for Yuki Gakuko.
15 October 1982
Mika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her mother Yoshimi and older sister Mayumi also sold their bodies.
12 November 2021
Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen.
12 March 2005
Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.
04 November 2006
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
26 March 1988
With no families to return to for summer vacation, three teenage boys spend their summer at their boarding school, alone and unsupervised.
08 March 2024
It was supposed to be a perfect crime... until it was witnessed. Based on a Chinese drama series with two billion total views, the film depicts a psychological battle between a murderer and three kids.
10 April 1984
Mai, a high school girl who was raped in a hotel, meets the man again two years later at a hotel on top of a mountain.
12 December 2018
A film about the lives of Chinese businessmen in Russia.
26 August 1989
A computer error puts entry level workers Nobuko (Miho Nakayama) and Junko (Chieri Ito) in charge of a toy company.
20 April 1985
A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You need a girl? And so begins the story.
21 January 1983
Mami runs a barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to super-short skirts.
19 August 1978
A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.
19 July 1997
Third installment of the "Gakko No Kaidan" series follows the trek of several elementary school students as they wander into an alternate world that exists on the opposite side of a school mirror.
15 September 1984
Shoko and Tomoko, who are in their third year of high school, and Nami, a first year, set up Sukeban Co.
24 February 1995
The production of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. Includes interviews with director Shusuke Kaneko, screenwriter Kazunori Ito and lead actress Ayako Fujitani.
22 December 2005
Direct-to-video special mostly comprised of stock footage from the 1966 series Ultraman. The main cast reprised their roles for newly-shot footage : in the summer of 2006, 40 years after Ultraman left Earth, the old members of the SSSP reunite after receiving a mysterious invitation letter.
11 February 1988
In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go on an arranged marriage.
15 October 2011
A live action adaptation of En Takadono's Messiah novel. Eiri Kaito, a "Sakura" agent, infiltrates the prestigious Seinei Academy.
02 April 2019
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945.
04 September 1993
During a graduation tour in Chitwan, simple-minded and shy Yasuo accidentally becomes a super singer under the name "Ibatsu Taro".
04 May 1983
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired.
22 December 2005
Direct-to-video documentary special about the 1966 series Ultra Q. It is mainly comprised of interviews with the original staff and cast alongside stock footage of the show.
03 November 1984
A new high school teacher is secretly given a mysterious floppy disk. It leads her into danger at a local porno theater.
21 August 2002
Extensive behind the scenes documentary chronicling the making of Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.
03 August 2008
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects.
