Kow Otani

Kow Otani

Biological Information
Birthplace	Tokyo, Japan
Date of birth	May 1, 1957
Affiliation Information
IMDB	IMDB
Wikipedia	Wikipedia
Notable work	Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
First film	Yamadamura waltz (1988)

Kow Otani is a Japanese composer who has composed for both the Godzilla and Gamera franchises.

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Staff
Directors
Showa era	Ishiro Honda • Eiji Tsuburaya^{SFX director} • Motoyoshi Oda • Koji Hashimoto • Koichi Kawakita^{Assistant SFX director} • Jun Fukuda • Yoshimitsu Banno • Mikio Naruse
Heisei era	Kazuki Omori • Takao Okawara
Millennium series	Takao Okawara • Masaaki Tezuka • Shusuke Kaneko • Hirofumi Ishigaki • Ryuhei Kitamura
TriStar Pictures	Roland Emmerich
MonsterVerse	Gareth Edwards • Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Toho reboot series	Hideaki Anno • Shinji Higuchi • Kobun Shizuno • Hiroyuki Seshita
Miscellaneous	Willis O'Brien
Producers
Showa era	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Millennium series	Shogo Tomiyama
TriStar Pictures	Dean Devlin
MonsterVerse	Thomas Tull • Jon Jashni • Mary Parent • Brian Rogers • Yoshimitsu Banno
Writers
Showa era	Shinichi Sekizawa • Takeo Murata • Takeshi Kimura
Heisei era	Kazuki Omori
Millennium series	Wataru Mimura
TriStar Pictures	Dean Devlin
MonsterVerse	Max Borenstein
Toho reboot series	Hideaki Anno
Composers
Showa era	Akira Ifukube • Masaru Sato
Heisei era	Reijiro Koroku • Kouichi Sugiyama • Takayuki Hattori
Millennium series	Michiru Oshima • Kow Otani
MonsterVerse	Alexandre Desplat • Henry Jackman
Toho reboot series	Shiro Sagisu • Takayuki Hattori
Actors and actresses
Showa era	Akira Takarada • Akihiko Hirata • Momoko Kochi • Takashi Shimura • Fuyuki Murakami • Raymond Burr • Hiroshi Koizumi • Tadao Takashima • Hideyo Amamoto • Kumi Mizuno • Susumu Kurobe • Seiji Ōnaka • Koji Furuhata • Don Messick^TGPH
Heisei era	Megumi Odaka • Masahiro Takashima • Jirō Dan • Mayumi Ōkuwa • Kaori Aizawa • Kenichirō Shimamura
Millennium series	Natalia D. Adams^{Orga vocalizations}
Paramount Pictures	Peter Cullen^{King Kong vocalizations}
TriStar Pictures	Frank Welker^{Godzilla vocalizations}
MonsterVerse	Aaron Taylor-Johnson • Ken Watanabe • Elizabeth Olsen • Juliette Binoche • Sally Hawkins • David Strathairn • Bryan Cranston • Carson Bolde • CJ Adams • Al Sapienza • Tom Hiddleston • Samuel L. Jackson • John Goodman • Brie Larson • Jing Tian • Toby Kebbell • John Ortiz • Corey Hawkins • Jason Mitchell • Shea Whigham • Thomas Mann • John C. Reilly • Millie Bobby Brown • Kyle Chandler • Vera Farmiga • O'Shea Jackson Jr. • Aisha Hinds • Anthony Ramos • Charles Dance • Randell Havens • Thomas Middleditch • Bradley Whitford • Zhang Ziyi
Toho reboot series	Ren Matsuzawa • Miwa Sasaki • Hiroki Hasegawa • Yutaka Takenouchi • Satomi Ishihara • Mamoru Miyano • Takahiro Sakurai • Kana Hanazawa • Tomokazu Sugita • Yuuki Kaji • Junichi Suwabe
Suit actors
Showa era	Haruo Nakajima • Katsumi Tezuka • Hiroshi Sekita • Kōji Sora • Satoshi Furuya • Koetsu Omiya • Shinji Takagi • Hideto Odachi • Isao Zushi • Tadakki Watanabe • Toru Kawai
Heisei era	Wataru Fukuda • Ryō Haritani • Kenpachiro Satsuma • Hurricane Ryu Hariken • Tsutomu Kitagawa • Mizuho Yoshida • Akira Ohashi • Toshinori Sasaki
Millennium series	Rie Ota • Toshinori Sasaki • Hirofumi Ishigaki • Kazuhiro Yoshida
TriStar Pictures	Kurt Carley
MonsterVerse	T.J. Storm
Toho reboot series	Mansai Nomura
Printed media
Heisei era	Noriyoshi Ohrai • Hurricane Ryu Hariken
IDW Publishing	Chris Mowry • Matt Frank • Jeff Zornow • Priscilla Tramontano

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Filmography

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