Person

Steven Okazaki

Directing · Born 1952-03-12 · Venice, California, USA

Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952, in Venice, California) is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American (3rd generation) and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has received a Peabody Award and been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning an Oscar for the documentary short subject, Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo (1990).

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  Point of View

  Director

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  Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

  Director

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  Mifune: The Last Samurai

  Producer

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  Facing Fear

  Editorial Consultant

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  Hunting Tigers

  Director

• American Sons

  Editor

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  Unfinished Business

  Director of Photography

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  Something Better to Come

  Additional Editing

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  Living on Tokyo Time

  Director

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  Heroin: Cape Cod, USA

  Director

• 2016Mifune: The Last SamuraiProducer
• 2015Heroin: Cape Cod, USADirector
• 2015Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board FactoryProducer
• 2014Something Better to ComeAdditional Editing
• 2013Facing FearEditorial Consultant
• 2008The Conscience of Nhem EnDirector
• 2007White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and NagasakiDirector
• 2005RehabDirector
• 2005The Mushroom ClubDirector
• 2000Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the StreetDirector
• 1995Alone Together: Young Adults Living With HIVDirector
• 1994American SonsEditor
• 1991Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle IshigoDirector
• 1988Point of ViewDirector
• 1988Hunting TigersDirector
• 1987Living on Tokyo TimeDirector
• 1985Unfinished BusinessDirector of Photography