Koichi Kawakita
Nascimento : 1952-12-05, Tokyo, Japan
Morte : 2014-12-05
História
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.
Himself - Filmmaker
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film that tells its story is the first of kaiju eiga, the giant monster movies.
Himself
A lengthy discussion on the film's story, the villain, themes, getting the picture off the ground, the script, the shoot, visual effects, and much more. The piece includes making-of footage from the shoot as well as filmmaker interviews.
Visual Effects
A 2011 tokusatsu kaiju short film produced by Dream Planet Japan and Marbling Fine Arts. Initially directed by Nobuaki Sugimoto, it was completed by Koichi Kawakita. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Masamoto Nasu. This was Koichi Kawakita's final film before his death in 2014.
Editor
A 2011 tokusatsu kaiju short film produced by Dream Planet Japan and Marbling Fine Arts. Initially directed by Nobuaki Sugimoto, it was completed by Koichi Kawakita. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Masamoto Nasu. This was Koichi Kawakita's final film before his death in 2014.
Director
A 2011 tokusatsu kaiju short film produced by Dream Planet Japan and Marbling Fine Arts. Initially directed by Nobuaki Sugimoto, it was completed by Koichi Kawakita. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Masamoto Nasu. This was Koichi Kawakita's final film before his death in 2014.
Himself
A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews with behind the scenes footage of the film's visual effects. Includes an interview with Akira Ifukube and a brief discussion of the late Ishiro Honda.
Visual Effects Director
The Sazer-X team find a mysterious boy who claims to have amnesia, meanwhile, an ancient evil has awakened and begins consuming the people of earth. Bosquito, an extremely powerful evil being from ancient times has absorbed the power of the Justirisers and is using it to fuel its own minions. Sazer-X, the Justirisers, and the Gransazers must work together to defeat this villain and save the planet.
Visual Effects Director
O antigo monstro Dagahra desperta graças aos altos niveis de poluião no oceano. Ele lança no mar umas criaturas estrelas-do-mar venenosas que devasta o oceano, matando muitas criaturas marinhas e atacando os humanos. Mothra surge para deter o monstro e mais uma batalha é travada, onde Mothra apresenta novos tipos de transformações.
Visual Effects Director
Durante uma escavação, funcionários de uma mineradora acham um simbolo estranho entre as rochas. Um selo magico que guarda ali, uma grande criatura que há muitos anos aterrorizou a terra, chamada Desghidorah. A quebra do selo liberta o monstro que mais uma vez, causa destruição e pânico. É chegada a hora de mais uma vez, Mothra, surgir para defender o planeta. Mas, Mothra se encontra em estado crítico, pois ela está muito velha e gastou energia para gerar um ovo. Tem inicio uma batalha entre gigantes monstros, onde o resultado decidirá o futuro do planeta.
Visual Effects Director
A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.
Special Effects
A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.
Visual Effects Director
Tóquio é o campo de batalha final quando Godzilla se defende de seu gêmeo intergaláctico, SpaceGodzilla, uma versão mutante do guardião verde da Terra.
Special Effects
After killing his brother, Prince Yamato is banished from his father's kingdom until he can bring his dangerous powers under control. On his journey, he meets and joins with the magical priestess Oto, and together they go to fight against an evil god that has been ravaging the Earth in the form of an enormous hydra. Will Yamato ever return home to reclaim his rightful place on the throne?
Director
A former 3D theme park attraction at Sanrio Puroland. A spaceship called Earth is dispatched to investigate the disappearance of its counterpart on a monster-filled planet beyond our Solar System. Once there, it quickly spots the downed craft, and is promptly attacked by Mothra and Rodan. It spots Godzilla and opens fire on him, giving the Planet enough time to escape.
Visual Effects Editor
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, é um filme japonês de kaiju de 1993, dirigido por Takao Okawara, escrito por Wataru Mimura e produzido por Shogo Tomiyama. Produzido e distribuído pela Toho Studios, é o 20º filme da franquia Godzilla, bem como o quinto filme a ser lançado durante o período Heisei da franquia.
Special Effects
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, é um filme japonês de kaiju de 1993, dirigido por Takao Okawara, escrito por Wataru Mimura e produzido por Shogo Tomiyama. Produzido e distribuído pela Toho Studios, é o 20º filme da franquia Godzilla, bem como o quinto filme a ser lançado durante o período Heisei da franquia.
Special Effects
Quando um OVNI pousa no Japão e seus tripulantes alegam vir de um futuro onde o país foi destruído por Godzilla, um grupo de pesquisadores junta-se a eles em uma viagem ao passado para evitar o surgimento do monstro. Mas isso acaba por trazer à vida um ser ainda mais terrível, King Ghidorah, e apenas o próprio Godzilla é capaz de enfrentá-lo.
Special Effects
A screen test using stop motion to animate Godzilla being attacked by Biollante's vines included as an extra on home media releases.
Visual Effects Director
Um cientista combina células de uma rosa com as de Godzilla, criando um tipo de monstro nunca visto antes.
Special Effects
Um cientista combina células de uma rosa com as de Godzilla, criando um tipo de monstro nunca visto antes.
Director
A collection of deleted scenes and bloopers from the library of Toho Studios films, including several films from the famous Godzilla franchise.
Special Effects
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
Special Effects
A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE
Special Effects
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.
Special Effects
Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.
