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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
Shusuke Kaneko
Writer
for Writer in Godzilla 2002 Mutation (2001)
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Just one year after the Dimension Tide assault, Godzilla reappeared back to his world. A drop of plasma from his battle falls on a single father named Tokumitsu Yuhara out on a lake in Mt. Fuji with his daughter, Sara. That drop infects him with visions of this other world Godzilla has been in -- alien ruins, temples, dry land, human slaves, UFOs, a world dominated by the Millennians, and their King. While the G-Graspers study Tokumitsu and try to find a cure, Tokumitsu starts going through changes and slowly turns into a gigantic humanoid monster named "M". Sara and Kiriko try to protect Tokumitsu from the SDF who don't believe in the notion that he turned into a monster and try to shoot him down. In the meantime, Tokumitsu (M) makes an effort to battle the King of the Monsters himself, Godzilla, in order to protect his loving daughter and Japan.
