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Koichi Kawakita

Visual Effects

Born December 5, 1942 · Tokyo, Japan

Died December 5, 2014

IMDb

Biography

Koichi Kawakita was a Japanese director, cinematographer, and optical photographer best known for his work on most of the Heisei era Godzilla films and the first two Rebirth of Mothra films. He also occasionally appeared in cameos in some of Toho's tokusastu productions.

Filmography19 titles

Ultraman: A Special Effects Fantasy Series

1966Title Designer, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Compositor

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

1995Special Effects, Visual Effects Director

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

2001as Air SDF officer (uncredited)

Godzilla vs. Biollante

1989Special Effects, Visual Effects Director

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

1993Special Effects

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

1991Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

1974Compositing Supervisor, Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director

Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster

1964Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Camera

Mothra vs. Godzilla

1964Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Camera

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

1994Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director

Godzilla vs. Hedorah

1971Third Assistant Director

Dogora

1964Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Camera

Space Amoeba

1970Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera

Son of Godzilla

1967Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera

The War of the Gargantuas

1966Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera, Visual Effects Compositor

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

1966Special Effects, Visual Effects Camera

Rebirth of Mothra

1996Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director

Rebirth of Mothra II

1997Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director

Goliathon

1977Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant