Movies: Shusuke Kaneko

It's graduation day. Junichi Shinohara shows up at school following a prolonged absence, to find a gigantic "pit" dug in the middle of the campus and all his classmates gathered in the classroom. Then, a strange message comes over the PA system. "In ...

A film about the lives of Chinese businessmen in Russia....

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....

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself in battle but there’s an even more capable person in his family, his father Nobutora (lit. Samurai T...

During a graduation tour in Chitwan, simple-minded and shy Yasuo accidentally becomes a super singer under the name "Ibatsu Taro". Fame and respect he wins, the richest man in Chitwan wishes to make him his family member. In Yasuo's last concert, his...

A love story between a timid woman and frustrated ballet dancer....

A live action adaptation of En Takadono's Messiah novel. Eiri Kaito, a "Sakura" agent, infiltrates the prestigious Seinei Academy. His mission is to get closer to Fumikazu, an ordinary schoolboy whose brother is the leading suspect in a terrorist inc...

Chika Kuboyama, Yoshio Hosokawa, and director Kôji Shiraishi gather for director Shûsuke Kaneko's son, Suzuyuki's birthday. As per usual, the cameras are rolling when suddenly Kaneko makes an outrageous remark....

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 ...

Ken is a mild-mannered man in his mid-twenties who like many his age has interests that stopped developing during adolescence. On a visit to a local toy collectors shop he acquires a rare alien action figure. Unexpectedly, Ken's world is turned insid...

A film by Shûsuke Kaneko...