Koichi Kawakita
- Visual effects
- December 5, 1942 · Tokyo, Japan
- December 5, 2014
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga · Self
- Gunbot the Armored Robot · Director, Writer
- The God of Clay · Director, Editing
- Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra · Self
- Kawaii! JeNny · Director
- Super Star Fleet Sazer-X the Movie: Fight! Star Warriors · Visual Effects Director
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack · Air SDF officer (uncredited)
- Rebirth of Mothra II · Visual Effects Director, Visual Effects
- Rebirth of Mothra · Visual Effects, Special Effects
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah · Special Effects, Visual Effects Director
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla · Visual Effects Director, Special Effects
- Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon · Special Effects
- Monster Planet of Godzilla · Director
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II · Special Effects
- Making of Godzilla vs. Biollante · Self
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah · Special Effects, Visual Effects
- Godzilla vs. Biollante · Special Effects, Visual Effects Director
- Gunhed · Special Effects, Visual Effects Director
- Ultraman: Terror on Route 87 · Title Designer
- Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection · Director, Writer
- Making of The Return of Godzilla · Director
- Zero · Special Effects
- Sayonara Jupiter · Special Effects, Visual Effects
- The Last Days of Planet Earth · Visual Effects Director
- Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 · Special Effects
- The War in Space · Special Effects
- The Mighty Peking Man · Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
- The Corporation · Special Effects
- Conflagration · Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
- Submersion of Japan · Special Effects
- Prophecies of Nostradamus · Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla · Visual Effects, Special Effects
- Zone Fighter · Special Effects, Visual Effects
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah · Third Assistant Director
- Space Amoeba · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- Latitude Zero · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- Son of Godzilla · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- King Kong Escapes · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep · Special Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- The War of the Gargantuas · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- Ultraman · Visual Effects, Visual Effects Compositor
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster · Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
- Dogora · Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
- Mothra vs. Godzilla · Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
- King Kong vs. Godzilla · Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
- King Kong vs. Godzilla · Special Effects, Visual Effects Camera