Takao Okawara
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- December 20, 1949
- Place of birth
- 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.
Movies with Takao Okawara
- Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra 2010 · ★ 9.3
Movies directed by Takao Okawara
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium 1999 · ★ 6.9
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah 1995 · ★ 7.7
- Godzilla vs. Mothra 1992 · ★ 6.9
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II 1993 · ★ 7.2
- Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon 1994 · ★ 6.0
- Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected 1991 · ★ 7.7
- Abduction 1997 · ★ 8.5