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 TÅhÅ in 1973, but would not get his first shot in the director's chair until 1980, when he joined Akira Kurosawa and IshirÅ 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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A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re...
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Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fa...
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The U.N.G.C.C. (United Nations Godzilla Countermeasure Center) recovers the remains of Mecha-King Gh...
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A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time ho...
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An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godz...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) | Director / Writer | 5.3 | |
| 2 | Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) | Director / Writer | 5.5 | |
| 3 | Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 4 | Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) | Director / Writer | 5.3 | |
| 5 | Godzilla 1985 (1985) | Director / Writer | 6.5 | |
| 6 | The Return of Godzilla (1984) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 7 | The Imperial Navy (1981) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 8 | Kagemusha (1980) | Director / Writer | 7.2 |
