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Koichi Kawakita (川北紘一 - Kawakita Kôichi) (born in Tokyo, Japan on December 5, 1942) is a special effects artist.

Biography

In 1962, Koichi Kawakita studied effects techniques under the special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya. Ten years later, he made his FX directorial debut in the superhero show, Ultraman Ace
. He has since directed FX for numerous superhero shows such as Meteor Man Zone
, Megaloman
and others. He also worked on movies as well. He was also an assistant to Sadamasa Arikawa for the Hong Kong/Japan co-production, The Mighty Peking Man
.

In 1983, he directed the FX for the Toho tokusatsu sci-fi film Sayonara Jupiter. The following year, he was an assistant director to Teruyoshi Nakano for The Return of Godzilla
. Five years later, he directed the FX for GunHed before succeeding Nakano for the Godzilla film series from 1989's Godzilla Vs. Biollante
to 1995's Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah, completing the second series of Godzilla films (the Versus Series, AKA: the "Heisei Series"). Most of the Godzilla films he worked on were characterized by the monsters standing/walking around and shooting energy weapons at each other (there was a certain limit on physical fighting at the time, so that the monster fights look more "realistic"). There was also an emphasis on military mecha, as mecha was a big specialty of Kawakita's.

In 2003, he directed the FX for Toho's Chouseishin Series of superhero shows, starting with the first series, Super Star God Gransazer
.

Aside from directing FX for films and TV, he also did FX work on toy commercials for Godzilla and Gundam for Bandai.

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