Yumi Kameyama became the first known woman to wear a kaiju suit onscreen in Gamera: Guardian of the

Yumi Kameyama became the first known woman to wear a kaiju suit onscreen in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, in which she portrayed the Super Gyaos. According to Shinji Higuchi, he cast Kameyama because  “the shape of a woman’s body is different from that of a man’s” and “since virtually all of the people who work in the special effects field are men, I thought that I could make it a little easier for women to enter the field by having one play Gyaos.”^[