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Ryuhei Kitamura moved to Australia at age 16 because he loved watching movies more than attending lessons and deliberately chose Sydney to study under Australian artistic heroes like George Miller and Russell Mulcahy. He dropped out of high school to attend a visual arts school in Sydney for two years.
Ryuhei Kitamura's career launched with his 2000 feature film debut Versus which proved to be a massive success within the film festival circuit. The film also launched the careers of stars Tak Sakaguchi and Hideo Sakaki and established Kitamura as a director who could blend martial arts, sci-fi, and horror.
Ryuhei Kitamura took the helm of Godzilla Final Wars in 2004 which marked the first of his projects to hold its premiere in Hollywood. The film was the 28th installment in the kaiju franchise and signaled a shift in his career from niche cult films to mainstream spectacle.
The Midnight Meat Train by Ryuhei Kitamura was released directly to the secondary market on the 1st of August 2008. The film starred Bradley Cooper and Vinnie Jones and was distributed by Lionsgate despite being a box office failure.
Ryuhei Kitamura's comeback project was Lupin III which was released in Japan on the 30th of August 2014. The film represented a significant shift in his career moving away from horror and into the realm of action-comedy.
Ryuhei Kitamura considers Swallowtail Butterfly by Shunji Iwai to be the best Japanese movie ever made. He has also expressed admiration for fellow Japanese director Shunji Iwai and stated that his dream project would be to direct an installment in the Mad Max film franchise.