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name: "Kazuki Ōmori"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kazuki-omori"
fi1m_id: "kazuki-omori"
imdb_id: "nm0648457"
tmdb_id: 72823
wikidata_id: "Q2476752"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "3 March 1952"
died: "12 November 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-28T21:05:31.991304+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kazuki Ōmori

## Identity

Kazuki Ōmori

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kazuki-omori
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kazuki-omori
- **IMDb ID:** nm0648457
- **TMDB ID:** 72823
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2476752
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_%C5%8Cmori, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2476752, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648457/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72823

Writer and director. Born 3 March 1952 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Died 12 November 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 3 March 1952, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- **Died:** 12 November 2022
- **Active:** 1989–1995
- **Also known as:** 大森 一樹, Ōmori Kazuki, Kazuki Oomori, Kazuki Ohmori, Kazuki Ômori
- **Frequently works with:** [Shogo Tomiyama](https://film.one/person/shogo-tomiyama.md), [Megumi Odaka](https://film.one/person/megumi-odaka.md), [Takao Okawara](https://film.one/person/takao-okawara.md), Akiji Kobayashi
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_%C5%8Cmori, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2476752, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648457/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72823

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Godzilla vs. Biollante*](https://film.one/film/godzilla-vs-biollante.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kazuki Ōmori (大森 一樹) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Osaka in 1952, he studied at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and qualified as a physician. He began making independent films while a student and won the Kido Award for screenplays in 1977, leading to his professional debut with the 1978 film *Orange Road Express*.

Ōmori co-founded the independent production company Director's Company in 1982. He is best known for his contributions to the Heisei-era Godzilla series, directing and writing *Godzilla vs. Biollante* (1989) and *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah* (1991), and writing the screenplays for *Godzilla vs. Mothra* (1992) and *Godzilla vs. Destoroyah* (1995). Later in his career he taught at Osaka University of Arts, heading the Visual Concept Planning Department from 2006. He died in 2022.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, wikizilla.org, cbr.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Godzilla vs. Biollante* (1989), Fi1m 76, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-vs-biollante.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Kyoto Hippocrates* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Haitei Elegy* (2021), Producer
- *Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam* (2015), Director, Writer
- *Gunbot the Armored Robot* (2014), series, Producer
- *Tsugaru* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *The Short Films: We Were All Once Children* (2008), Director
- *Rescue Wings* (2008), Writer
- *Kanashiki Tenshi* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Super Star Fleet Sazer-X the Movie: Fight! Star Warriors* (2005), Director
- *The Superdry Films* (2005), Director
- *T.R.Y.* (2003), Director
- *Run Ichiro Run* (2001), Director, Screenplay
- *Saiaku* (2001), Director
- *Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai* (2000), Director, Writer
- *The Boy Who Saw the Wind* (2000), Director
- *June Bride* (1998), Director, Screenplay
- *Dream Stadium* (1997), Director
- *Night Train to the Stars* (1996), Director
- *Godzilla vs. Destoroyah* (1995), Screenplay
- *Kinkyu Yobidashi: Emergency Call* (1995), Director, Screenplay
- *Broken Heart* (1995), Director, Screenplay
- *Shoot!* (1994), Director
- *Godzilla vs. Mothra* (1992), Screenplay
- *Succession* (1992), Director
- *Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah* (1991), Director, Screenplay
- *Mr. Moonlight* (1991), Director, Screenplay
- *The Reason Why I Became Ill* (1990), Director
- *Godzilla vs. Biollante* (1989), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-vs-biollante.md)
- *Afternoon When Flowers Fell* (1989), Director, Screenplay
- *Mystery Train* (1989), Translator
- *Yojo no jidai* (1988), Screenplay
- *The Goodbye Girls* (1987), Director, Writer
- *Totto Channel* (1987), Director, Writer
- *Young Girls in Love* (1986), Writer, Director
- *Take It Easy* (1986), Director
- *Take It Easy* (1986), Writer
- *You Gotta Chance* (1985), Director
- *Sukanpin Walk* (1984), Director
- *After That* (1982), Actor
- *Hear the Wind Sing* (1981), Director, Screenplay
- *Disciples of Hippocrates* (1980), Director, Screenplay
- *A Long Goodbye to Natsuko* (1978), Director, Writer
- *Orange Road Express* (1978), Director, Writer
- *I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!* (1975), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Kazuki Ōmori](https://film.one/media/person/4095966/gallery-55f0bf1c4e09.jpg) Kazuki Ōmori — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Kazuki_Omori%2C_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Kazuki_Omori%2C_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kazuki Ōmori](https://film.one/media/person/4095966/gallery-e999c4a0a0a4.jpg) Kazuki Ōmori — Image via TMDB
- ![Kazuki Ōmori](https://film.one/media/person/4095966/gallery-c53185868e27.jpg) Kazuki Ōmori — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- 20th Japan Academy Prize 1997: 20th Japan Academy Prize (won), for *Waga Kokoro no Ginga Tetsudo Miyazawa Kenji Monogatari*
- 11th Japan Academy Prize 1988: 11th Japan Academy Prize (won), for *Koisuru Onnatachi*
- Newcomer Award for Fine Art of the Ministry of Education 1988: Newcomer Award for Fine Art of the Ministry of Education (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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