Steven Okazaki
b. 1952 (age 74)
Venice, California, USA
Director
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).
Known For
Filmography
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The Only Language She Knows
2026 Director
Cinematographer
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★ 7.2
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2015 Director
Writer
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★ 7.1
Heroin: Cape Cod, USA
2015 Director
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Giap's Last Day at the Ironing Board Factory
2015 Writer
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Approximately Nels Cline
2013 Director
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All We Could Carry
2011 Director
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Crushed: The Oxycontin Interviews
2010 Director
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★ 7.5
The Conscience of Nhem En
2008 Actor
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Narrator
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★ 8.2
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2007 Director
Writer
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★ 6.8
The Mushroom Club
2005 Director
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★ 7.3
Rehab
2005 Director
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★ 7.9
Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street
2000 Director
Cinematographer
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Alone Together: Young Adults Living with HIV
1995 Director
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★ 6.5
The Lisa Theory
1994 Director
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★ 8.0
Hunting Tigers
1994 Director
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Troubled Paradise
1992 Director
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★ 7.4
Days of Waiting
1991 Director
Cinematographer
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★ 6.5
Living on Tokyo Time
1987 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 6.6
Unfinished Business
1985 Director
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Cinematographer
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★ 6.9
America Undercover
1983 Director