Shusuke Kaneko

is a Japanese writer and director, known within the kaiju genre for directing the Gamera Trilogy and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. His contributions to the Ultraman Series include directing episodes for Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy and Ultraman Max.
==Directed Works==
*Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy - Episodes 3, 7
*Ultraman Max - Episodes 1, 2, 11, 12, 35, 36
*Ultra Q Kaiju Legend: Jun Manjome's Confessions
*Ultraman Kaiju Legend: The 40 Year Old Truth
==Roles==
*Talent Agent - Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy (Episode 9)
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Kaneko is the only person to have directed entries in the Godzilla, Gamera, and Ultraman franchises.
*According to Keiichi Hasegawa, both Ultraman and Kamen Rider franchises since Heisei were largely influenced by Kaneko's Heisei Gamera Trilogy, where various influential practical knowledge and tokusatsu techniques were invented during the production of the trilogy. The "Konaka Gamera", a scrapped Gamera script by Chiaki J. Konaka and Kazuya Konaka, became the basis of the Heisei Gamera Trilogy, and the "Konaka Gamera"'s concept was later adopted for Gamera the Brave, Ultraman Tiga, and Digimon Tamers.ASCII MEDIA WORKS, 2014, Heisei Gamera Perfection, p.75, p.80, p.87, p.159, p.237, Kadokawa ShotenChiaki J. Konaka, 2018, という事をここに書いているのは、以前にも書いたけれど、テイマーズの1～3話は設定などは全然違うものの、小中兄弟版ガメラのエッセンスが濃厚に入っている。だからもしこの映画が成立していたら、テイマーズは生まれなかったとも言える。, Twitter
*The original broadcast of episode 11 of Ultraman Max features a scene where children play with toys of Godzilla and Gamera from GMK and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris respectively, both films directed by Kaneko. It would later be omitted from home video releases of the episode, but was included with the English dub of the series on TOKU for unknown reasons.
==References==
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