is a Japanese visual effects director and film producer. She has worked on all of acclaimed filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki's films to date and has received four VFX-Japan Awards for her efforts, along with an

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects. History of the award The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first recognized the technical contributions of special effects ...

for ''Godzilla Minus One'' (2023), making Shibuya the first

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to win in this category.

Life and career

Shibuya was born in 1970 in

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. After watching ''Star Wars'' (1977) and '' Back to the Future'' (1985), she became engrossed in the production of special effects, which would later lead to her employment at the animation and visual effects studio

Shirogumi , member of The Association of Japanese Animations, is a company centralized in the production of animated series and feature films, as well as the making and adjusting of visual effects. History In 1973, Tatsuo Shimamura established . To expan ...

. In 1993, Shibuya began working in digital compositing on the

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-directed film ''The Last Dance''. Thereafter, she has participated in the creation of visual effects for various advertisements and movies at Shirogumi's studio in

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. Shibuya has worked on every film directed by Takashi Yamazaki, notably serving as the visual effects director for ''Juvenile'' (2000), ''

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'' (2002), '' Always: Sunset on Third Street'' (2005), '' Always: Sunset on Third Street 2'' (2007), ''Space Battleship Yamato'' (2010), '' Always: Sunset on Third Street '64'' (2012), ''The Eternal Zero'' (2013), '' Parasyte: Part 1'' (2014), '' Parasyte: Part 2'' (2015), '' A Man Called Pirate'' (2016) and ''

Godzilla Minus One is a 2023 Japanese Epic film, epic ''kaiju'' film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. Produced by Toho Studios and Robot Communications and distributed by Toho, it is the 37th film in the Godzilla (franchise), ''Go ...

'' (2023). She also produced Yamazaki's animated features '' Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki'' (2011), '' Stand by Me Doraemon'' (2014), '' Dragon Quest: Your Story'' (2019), and ''

Stand by Me Doraemon 2 is a 2020 Japanese 3D computer animated science fiction comedy film based on the ''Doraemon'' manga series and a sequel to the previous movie, the 2014 film ''Stand by Me Doraemon''. Directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki, it is primari ...

'' (2020).

Filmography

As visual effects director

* ''Juvenile'' (2000) * ''

'' (2002) * '' Always: Sunset on Third Street'' (2005) * '' Always: Sunset on Third Street 2'' (2007) * '' K-20: Legend of the Mask'' (2008) * ''Ballad'' (2009) * ''Space Battleship Yamato'' (2010) * '' Always: Sunset on Third Street '64'' (2012) * ''The Eternal Zero'' (2013) * '' Parasyte: Part 1'' (2014) * '' Parasyte: Part 2'' (2015) * '' A Man Called Pirate'' (2016) * ''Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura'' (2017) * ''

The Great War of Archimedes ''The Great War of Archimedes'' (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical film about the building of the battleship ''Japanese battleship Yamato, Yamato''. Based on a manga by Norifusa Mita, the movie is a ...

'' (2019) * ''Yokaipedia'' (2022) * ''

'' (2023)

As producer

* '' Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki'' (2011) * '' Stand by Me Doraemon'' (2014) * '' Dragon Quest: Your Story'' (2019) * ''

'' (2020) * ''Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monsters Ultimate Battle'' (2021) - visual effects

Awards

Shibuya has received four VFX-JAPAN Awards, for her work on Takashi Yamazaki's '' Always: Sunset on Third Street '64'' (2012), ''The Eternal Zero'' (2013), '' A Man Called Pirate'' (2016), and ''Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura'' (2017). She also won Best Visual Effects at the North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards and Seattle Film Critics Society Awards for her work on ''

'' (2023). She has also won, alongside Yamazaki,

Masaki Takahashi is a Japanese CG director and visual effects artist. He is also the second production manager at Shirogumi's Chōfu Studio. For the film ''Godzilla Minus One'' (2023), Takahashi (alongside visual effects supervisor Takashi Yamazaki, visual effe ...

, and

Tatsuji Nojima is a Japanese visual effects artist and compositor. Life and career Nojima was born on October 13, 1998, in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. In his childhood, Nojima was fascinated by '' Back to the Future'' and ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', which sp ...

, the

at the

96th Academy Awards The 96th Academy Awards is an upcoming ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which will honor the best 2023 in film, films of 2023, and is expected to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Ange ...

for her work on ''Godzilla Minus One''.

References

External links

* * {{Academy Award Best Visual Effects Visual effects artists Japanese film producers 1970 births Living people People from Tokyo Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners