Kiyoko Shibuya

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 for Godzilla Minus One, making Shibuya the first woman of color to win in this category.

Life and career Shibuya was born in 1970 in Tokyo.

Shibuya has worked on every film directed by Takashi Yamazaki, notably serving as the visual effects director for Juvenile (2000), Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005), Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007), and Godzilla Minus One (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 (2020).

Filmography

As visual effects director

Juvenile (2000) K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008) Ballad (2009) Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 (2012) The Eternal Zero (2013) The Great War of Archimedes (2019) Yokaipedia (2022) Godzilla Minus One (2023) Dragon Quest: Your Story (2019) Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (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 has also won, alongside Yamazaki, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima, the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 96th Academy Awards for her work on Godzilla Minus One.