Visual Effects
Koichi Kawakita
ES, JA, EN, ZH cinema · 41 credits
Born
5 December 1942
Died
5 December 2014 (aged 72)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
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
as Self - Filmmaker
The God of Clay
Director, Editor, Visual Effects, Production Supervisor
Super Star Fleet Sazer-X the Movie: Fight! Star Warriors
Visual Effects Director
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
as Air SDF officer (uncredited)
Rebirth of Mothra II
Visual Effects Director, Visual Effects, Special Effects
Rebirth of Mothra
Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Special Effects, Visual Effects Director
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon
Special Effects
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Visual Effects Director, Special Effects, Visual Effects
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Special Effects
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Visual Effects Director, Special Effects
Gunhed
Special Effects, Visual Effects Director, Visual Effects
Ultraman: Terror on Route 87
Title Designer
Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection
Director, Writer
Zero
Special Effects
Sayonara Jupiter
Special Effects, Visual Effects, Visual Effects Director
The Last Days of Planet Earth
Visual Effects Director
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Special Effects
The Mighty Peking Man
Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant
The War in Space
Special Effects, Visual Effects Director
The Corporation
Special Effects
Conflagration
Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Director
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Visual Effects, Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Director, Compositing Supervisor
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Director
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Third Assistant Director
Space Amoeba
Visual Effects Camera, Visual Effects
Latitude Zero
Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
King Kong Escapes
Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
Son of Godzilla
Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Visual Effects Camera, Special Effects
The War of the Gargantuas
Visual Effects, Visual Effects Camera, Visual Effects Compositor
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Camera, Special Effects
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Camera, Special Effects
Dogora
Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Camera
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant, Visual Effects Camera
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Visual Effects Camera, Special Effects, Special Effects Assistant