Takao Okawara
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- December 20, 1949 (age 76)
- Birthplace
- 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 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.
Known For
Filmography
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Movie · Director
Abduction
Movie · Director
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Movie · Director
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon
Movie · Director
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Movie · Director
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Movie · Director
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected
Movie · Director
The Goodbye Girls
Movie · Assistant Director
Godzilla 1985
Movie · First Assistant Director
The Return of Godzilla
Movie · First Assistant Director
The Longest Tunnel
Movie · Assistant Director
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Movie · Assistant Director
The Imperial Navy
Movie · Assistant Director
Kagemusha
Movie · Assistant Director
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Movie · Assistant Director
Human Revolution II
Movie · Assistant Director
Zero Pilot
Movie · Assistant Director
The Gate of Youth
Movie · Assistant Director
Tidal Wave
Movie · Assistant Director
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Movie · Assistant Director
Submersion of Japan
Movie · Assistant Director