Education
Meiji University.
河崎実
Meiji University.
He is known for his low budget, absurdist 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.
In 2006, he released Everyone But Japan Sinks (a parody of Japan Sinks) and Crab Goalkeeper, a movie Kawasaki describes as being like Forrest Gump.
Kawasaki also directed 2008"s The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack the G8 Summit, a sequel to the 1967 kaiju film The X from Outer Space. While the original is played straight the sequel is a parody.