Director
Takao Okawara
76 years · Tokyo, Japan · 8 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 8
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
2010 · Himself
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
1999 · Director
Abduction
1997 · Director
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
1995 · Director
On Tubi TV
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon
1994 · Director
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
1993 · Director
On Tubi TV
Godzilla vs. Mothra
1992 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected
1991 · Director, Writer