Minoru Kawasaki (河崎実), born 15 August 1958, is a Japanese filmmaker, best known for low-budget parody films featuring surreal humour and traditional practical effects.

[1][2][3] Kawasaki began his career with mostly self-financed work, including the Den-Ace short films, featuring a parody of kyodai-style Japanese superheroes, before working on Tsuburaya Production's Ultraman Tiga (1996-1997).

In 2006, he released The World Sinks Except Japan, a spoof of Shinji Higuchi's remake of Japan Sinks,[4] and Crab Goalkeeper (also 2006), a film Kawasaki describes as being his Forrest Gump (1994).

[5] Kawasaki has also directed 2008's Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit, a sequel to the 1967 Shochiku kaiju film The X from Outer Space.

While the original, made during the height of Japan's "Kaiju Boom" (1966–1967), is "played straight", the sequel is another parody.