---
name: "Shinichi Wakasa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shinichi-wakasa"
fi1m_id: "shinichi-wakasa"
imdb_id: "nm0906729"
tmdb_id: 550587
wikidata_id: "Q11616634"
roles: ["Modeling"]
born: "2 March 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 60
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-28T21:15:13.952240+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Shinichi Wakasa

## Identity

Shinichi Wakasa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shinichi-wakasa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shinichi-wakasa
- **IMDb ID:** nm0906729
- **TMDB ID:** 550587
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11616634
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11616634, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/550587

Modeling. Born 2 March 1960 in Tokyo.

## Details

- **Work:** Modeling
- **Born:** 2 March 1960, Tokyo
- **Active:** 1999–2004
- **Frequently works with:** [Masaaki Tezuka](https://film.one/person/masaaki-tezuka.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 63 (1), 2000s 59 (2)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 3, Adventure 3, Science Fiction 3, Fantasy 2, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $49m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11616634, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906729/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/550587

## Biography

Shinichi Wakasa is a Japanese model maker, sculptor and special effects makeup artist. He founded MONSTERS Inc. in 1980 and began working in tokusatsu that year on the Ultraman 80 television series.

Wakasa served as suit sculptor or suit maker on numerous Toho kaiju films, including Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993), Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999), Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000), Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002), Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). He is also credited as costume designer on the latter two Godzilla films and worked on other projects such as Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996) and Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011).

*Sources: wikizilla.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Godzilla: Final Wars* (2004), Fi1m 54, Modeling — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-final-wars.md)
- *Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.* (2003), Fi1m 64, Costume design, Modeling, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-tokyo-s-o-s.md)
- *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Fi1m 63, Costume Designer, Modeling — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Robot Dracula* (2026), as Shin'ichi
- *Fest Godzilla II: Shinjuku Burning* (2025), Costume Design, Modeling, Creature Design
- *Godzilla Fest 5: Great Monster Battle* (2024), Costume Design, Modeling
- *Brush of the God* (2024), as Modeling
- *Fesu Gojira 3: Gaigan Raishū* (2022), Costume Design, Modeling
- *What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?* (2022), as Modeling
- *Godzilla vs. Hedorah* (2021), as Modeling · Costume Design
- *Gantz: Perfect Answer* (2011), Special Effects Makeup Artist
- *Godzilla: Final Wars* (2004), as Modeling — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-final-wars.md)
- *The Spirit of Godzilla* (2004), Actor
- *Devilman* (2004), Makeup Artist
- *Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.* (2003), as Modeling · Costume Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-tokyo-s-o-s.md)
- *Shadow of the Wraith* (2001), Makeup Artist
- *Godzilla vs. Megaguirus* (2000), Costume Design, Modeling
- *Zombie Snake* (2000), Makeup Effects Designer, Makeup Artist
- *Crossfire* (2000), Makeup Effects, Makeup Artist
- *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), as Modeling · Costume Designer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md)
- *Gamera 2: Advent of Legion* (1996), as Modeling
- *Jigokudo Spiritual Press* (1996), Special Effects Makeup Artist
- *Alice 6* (1995), series, Special Effects Makeup Artist, Costume Designer
- *The Brutal Insanity of Love* (1993), Visual Effects
- *The Shadow Over Innsmouth* (1992), Special Effects Makeup Artist
- *The Cat- Beast Wars: Nine Lives* (1991), as Special Props
- *Evil Dead Trap* (1988), Special Effects Makeup Artist, Special Effects Key Makeup Artist
- *The Frozen Horror Show* (1987), Special Effects Makeup Artist
- *The Demon Within* (1985), Makeup Effects Designer

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