Longtime Screen Anarchy readers will no doubt be familiar with the unique oeuvre of director Kawasaki Minoru. A lover and devotee of old school man-in-suit kaiju and tokusatsu madness, Kawasaki created a niche for himself as the premier spoofster of some of Japan's most recognizable pop culture exports. Taking the genres that have come to exemplify a large part of the way Japan's wild entertainment is viewed by the outside world and attacking them with his own absurd sense of humor has made Kawasaki's work instantly recognizable, and his latest, the insane Monster Seafood Wars, is exactly what his fans have come to expect. Yuta used to be somebody, a scientist on the rise before he was shunned from the profession he loved and forced...
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- 8/29/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Minoru Kawasaki is best known for his low-budget films featuring animals with human characteristics, with Calamari Wrestler and Executive Koala being two of the most famous. Before that however, he also worked on Tsuburaya Productions’s Ultraman Tiga and Ultraman Dyna. His latest films, “Monster Seafood Wars” follows on the footsteps of the first two.
On the occasion of Monster Seafood Wars screening at Fantasia 2020, we speak with him about animals instead of human characters, using comedy and parody to communicate a message working with Tsuburaya Pro, and many other topics.
Where did the idea of using an animal hero instead of a human originally come from? Where do you typically get your inspiration?
There are many Japanese stories about humans and animals getting along, such as “Momotaro” or “Kintaro”. Aside from that, there is also a manga series everyone in Japan know from their childhood “Norakuro”, a story in...
On the occasion of Monster Seafood Wars screening at Fantasia 2020, we speak with him about animals instead of human characters, using comedy and parody to communicate a message working with Tsuburaya Pro, and many other topics.
Where did the idea of using an animal hero instead of a human originally come from? Where do you typically get your inspiration?
There are many Japanese stories about humans and animals getting along, such as “Momotaro” or “Kintaro”. Aside from that, there is also a manga series everyone in Japan know from their childhood “Norakuro”, a story in...
- 8/27/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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