Takao Okawara
Directing
Born: 1949-12-20 · Tokyo, Japan
Biography
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
🎬 Movies (22)
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
2010
Himself
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
1999
Director
Abduction
1997
Director
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
1995
Director
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon
1994
Director
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
1993
Director
Godzilla vs. Mothra
1992
Director
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected
1991
Director
The Goodbye Girls
1987
Assistant Director
Godzilla 1985
1985
First Assistant Director
The Return of Godzilla
1984
First Assistant Director
The Longest Tunnel
1982
Assistant Director
The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981
Assistant Director
The Imperial Navy
1981
Assistant Director
Kagemusha
1980
Assistant Director
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
Assistant Director
Human Revolution II
1976
Assistant Director
Zero Fighter
1976
Assistant Director
The Gate of Youth
1975
Assistant Director
Tidal Wave
1975
Assistant Director
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Assistant Director
Submersion of Japan
1973
Assistant Director