Minoru Kawasaki

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Minoru Kawasaki (电影导演, born 1958) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his magical realist comedy films.

Kawasaki began his career with some self-financed films, including Iko the Earth Patrol Girl, and manga to live action adaptions, before working on Ultraman Tiga. He had his first hit with Calamari Wrestler, a film about a wrestler who becomes a large squid. He followed this up with Executive Koala, featuring a koala office worker, Beetle, the Horn King, another wrestling movie, this time with a giant stag beetle. In 2006, he released Everyone But Japan Sinks (a parody of The Sinking of Japan) and Crab Goalkeeper, a movie Kawasaki describes as being like Forest Gump.

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