Minoru Kawasaki (film director)
Minoru Kawasaki (Japanese河 崎 実, Minoru Kawasaki, born August 15, 1958 in Setagaya, Tokyo ) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life and work
Kawasaki began his career in the early 90s with the production of self-produced B-movies like the series Chikyu Boei shōjo Iko - chan (地球 防衛 少女 イコ ちゃん) and the live-action adaptation of manga. From 1996 he was for the Japanese television show Ultraman Tiga, one of numerous processes of popular in Japan Ultraman character, works. There were different productions. He gained international fame Younger mainly through a series of grotesque and trash films. Here are The Calamari Wrestler and Koara - Kacho (literally "head of department Koala " ) to name a few. In the former fights a wrestler against a huge calamari. After making him the calamari his girlfriend dispute, he even seeks the power of the squid in the mountains of Pakistan, until it comes to a rematch. In the second film, which is based on the slasher and thriller genre, fighting a koala who works in a large office complex, in the search for the murderers to his girlfriend about proving his innocence. Some works Kawasaki characterized mainly by unintentional comedy, which is expressed by the fact that in serious basically stories it is understood by all stakeholders as a perfectly normal, just that some characters are animals in bad costumes. Emphasized in this sense, the film Kani gōrukīpā (literally " crab - keeper " ), in which a mentally retarded crab struggles to come in the Japanese professional football. The film is reminiscent also massively in the Hollywood film Forrest Gump. Kawasaki's works set yourself apart from other productions of this genre from and can only be described as absurd.
In 2006 he graduated with Nihon Igai Zembu Chimbotsu (literally: " Everything But Japan is in" ) to a parody of disaster movies.
In one of the recent Kawasaki productions, the film Monster X against the G8 summit, the Japanese Daikaijû Girara versa (often Guilala or Guila ) back. Location of the film is the 2008 Tōyako Samitto, the 2008 G8 Summit in Japan. The film also allusions occur to Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.