Makoto Kamiya

is a Japanese director and visual effects supervisor. His notable film directing credits include Resident Evil: Degeneration and Resident Evil: Damnation (2012). Kamiya has also contributed to many other tokusatsu and visual effects-heavy productions throughout his career, directing the special effects for films such as Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), and Sinking of Japan (2006), as well as the Gantz (2011–2016) and Kingdom (2019–present) film series.

Life and career Kamiya was born on October 6, 1965, in Tokyo, Japan. As a child, he lived near Toho Studios and would often sneak into the studio grounds to peek into the warehouses where the miniature sets and monster costumes were stored, sparking his early fascination with tokusatsu filmmaking.

In 2000, Kamiya made his debut as a full special effects director with the disaster film Whiteout, starring Yuji Oda.

He has maintained a long and close professional relationship with director Shinsuke Sato, serving as special effects director or visual effects supervisor on many of Sato's films. Their collaboration began with the two-part live-action adaptation Gantz (2010) and Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011). He also served as VFX supervisor on Sato's Library Wars series, Bleach (2018), Inuyashiki (2018), the Netflix series Alice in Borderland (2020–), and multiple entries in the Kingdom live-action film series, where he helped realize large-scale battle scenes with massive armies and epic VFX. Killers (2003), Otakus in Love (2004), and The Next Generation: Patlabor (TV 2014).

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