Takao Okawara

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Directing

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.

Filmography

• Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra (2010)
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
• Abduction (1997)
• Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
• Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
• Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
• Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991)
• The Goodbye Girls (1987)
• Godzilla 1985 (1985)
• The Return of Godzilla (1984)
• The Longest Tunnel (1982)
• The Imperial Navy (1981)
• The Last Days of Planet Earth (1981)
• Kagemusha (1980)
• The Gate of Youth Part 2 (1977)
• Zero Pilot (1976)
• Human Revolution II (1976)
• Tidal Wave (1975)
• The Gate of Youth (1975)
• Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
• Submersion of Japan (1973)