is a Japanese special effects director and actor.
Biography
Suzuki had a rather short career at Toho as a special effects director of theatrical films, which only spanned across one Mothra movie and two Godzilla films. It appears that Suzuki might have taken the blunt of the blame for ''
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus'' (2000) box office failure, which is why his career might have ended so abruptly. Before Suzuki became a director of special effects, he was the assistant special effects director for ''
The Imperial Navy'' (1981) as his first production. He dabbled in assisting outside of special effects, before teaming with ''
Koichi Kawakita'' for ''
Sayonara Jupiter'' (1984). Seven years later, Suzuki became Kawakita's go-to assistant from ''
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah'' (1991) until Kawakita's retirement from theatrical work.
In 2003, Suzuki was back at Toho, however, this time in the director's chair as he helped helm Toho's successful The Gransazers TV show. He continued this trend with the follow-up series in the Star God franchise: The Justirisers (2004).
Filmography
Special Effects Director
* ''
Rebirth of Mothra III'' (1998)
* ''
Godzilla 2000: Millennium'' (1999)
* ''
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus'' (2000)
* ''
Ultraman Cosmos
is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series being the twelfth entry (seventeenth overall) show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, ''Ultraman Cosmos'' aired from July 7, 2001 to September 28, 2002, with a total of 65 episodes, which c ...
'' (2001-2002)
* ''
Ultraman Max
is a Japanese tokusatsu series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company. Released as the fourteenth entry (twentieth overall) in the ''Ultra Series'', it aired from July 2, 2005, until April 1, 2006. The show aimed ...
'' (2005-2006)
* ''
Ultraman Mebius
is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. It is the 15th entry (21st overall) and 40th anniversary production in the Ultra Series, which first began in 1966. It premiered on the Tokyo Broad ...
'' (2006-2007)
Special Effects Assistant Director
* ''
The Imperial Navy'' (1981)
* ''
Sayonara Jupiter'' (1984)
* ''
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah'' (1991)
* ''
Godzilla vs. Mothra'' (1992)
* ''
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II'' (1993)
* ''
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla'' (1994)
* ''
Yamato Takeru
, originally , was a Japanese folk hero and semi-legendary prince of the imperial dynasty, son of Emperor Keikō, who is traditionally counted as the 12th Emperor of Japan. The kanji spelling of his name varies: it appears in the ''Nihon Shoki'' ...
'' (1994)
* ''
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah'' (1995)
* ''
Rebirth of Mothra'' (1996)
* ''
Rebirth of Mothra II'' (1997)
Director
* ''
ChouSeiShin GranSazer
(translated into English as ''Ultra Star God Gransazer'' or ''Super Star God Gransazer'', also known as only ''Gransazer'') is a Japanese drama produced by Toho, Toho Company Ltd. and Konami. The series aired on TV Tokyo from October 4, 2003 ...
'' (2003-2004)
* ''
Genseishin Justiriser'' (2004-2005)
* ''
Ultraman Mebius
is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. It is the 15th entry (21st overall) and 40th anniversary production in the Ultra Series, which first began in 1966. It premiered on the Tokyo Broad ...
'' (2006-2007)
* ''
Ultraseven X
is the 16th entry (22nd overall) in the Tsuburaya's long-running Ultra Series. It is a darker and edgier revival of the 1967 series ''Ultraseven'', and is the second in Tsuburaya Productions' ''Ultra'' hero series to be exclusively for an adult ...
'' (2007)
Assistant Director
* ''
Daijobu, My Friend'' (1983)
* ''
Tampopo
is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first " ramen Western", a play on the term spaghetti ...
'' (1985)
Acting
* ''
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
is a 2002 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, with special effects by Yūichi Kikuchi. Distributed by Toho and produced under their subsidiary Toho Pictures, it is the 27th film in the ''Godzilla'' franchise and the fourth film ...
'' (2002)
References
External links
*
* https://www.tohokingdom.com/people/kenji_suzuki.htm
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1957 births
People from Ibaraki Prefecture
Living people
Japanese visual effects artists