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Takao Okawara
Tokyo, Japan
Takao Okawara (born December 20, 1949, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director, writer and producer. Most famous for his entries in the Heisei Godzilla series, Takao Okawara…
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Takao Okawara (born December 20, 1949, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director, writer and producer. Most famous for his entries in the Heisei Godzilla series, Takao Okawara joined Tōhō in 1973, but would not get his first shot in the director's chair until 1980, when he joined Akira Kurosawa and Ishirō Honda on the film Kagemusha (1980). Four years later, he worked as an assistant director for the first Godzilla film of the Heisei series: The Return of Godzilla (1984). Okawara debuted as primary director seven years later on the film Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991), which he also wrote. Okawara is the oldest living Godzilla film director. With Kazuki Omori's death in 2022, he also became the last living director of any pre-Millennium Godzilla movie.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2010
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
Movie Himself
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1999
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Movie Director
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1997
Abduction
Movie Director
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1995
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Movie Director
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1994
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon
Movie Director
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1993
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Movie Director
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1992
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Movie Director
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1991
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected
Movie Director
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1987
The Goodbye Girls
Movie Assistant Director
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1985
Godzilla 1985
Movie First Assistant Director
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1984
The Return of Godzilla
Movie First Assistant Director
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1982
The Longest Tunnel
Movie Assistant Director
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1981
The Imperial Navy
Movie Assistant Director
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1981
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Movie Assistant Director
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1980
Kagemusha
Movie Assistant Director
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1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Movie Assistant Director
More credits
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1976
Zero Fighter
Movie Assistant Director
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1976
Human Revolution II
Movie Assistant Director
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1975
Tidal Wave
Movie Assistant Director
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1975
The Gate of Youth
Movie Assistant Director
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1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Movie Assistant Director
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1973
Submersion of Japan
Movie Assistant Director
