is a Japanese
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
from
Miyagi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...
, mainly focusing on violent sex and gore films.
Biography
He has a small following outside
Japan
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thanks to a couple of notorious films:''
Entrails of a Beauty'' and ''
Entrails of a Virgin
is a 1986 Cinema of Japan, Japanese horror film in the "splatter film, splatter-eros" subgenre of pink film. Most of the sex scenes are fogging (censorship), fogged, due to censorship in Japan.
Plot
A group of photographers and their models go ...
''. This type of film (low budget, yet high production values and shot on
video), helped usher in a new era of ''extreme Asia'' movies. Komizu was the creator of the Japanese cult zombie film Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay which was screened in 1991.
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His nickname, "Gaira", apparently comes from a Japanese monster in the film (1966
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).
Filmography
* '' Seiyugi'' (1968)
* ''Go, Go Second Time Virgin
is a 1969 Japanese film by Kōji Wakamatsu.
Plot
Poppo, a teenage girl, is raped by four boys on the roof of a seven-story apartment building. She asks them to kill her, but they mock her and leave. Tsukio, a teenage boy, has been watching the r ...
'' (1969) (writing)
* '' Seizoku'' (1970)
* ''Sailor-fuku shikijo shiiku
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'' (1982)
* '' Hako no naka no onna: shojo ikenie'' (1985)
* '' Bijo no harawata'' (1986)
* '' Shojo no harawata'' (1986)
* '' Ryôjoku mesu ichiba – kankin'' (1986)
* '' Guzoo The Thing Forsaken By God Part I '' (1986)
* '' Gômon kifujin'' (1987)
* ''Hoshi tsugu mono
is the Japanese word for "''Star''", and the Japanese word for a Buddhist "''Priest''" &/or "''Monk''" ( 僧, 法師 and 比丘).
Hoshi may also refer to:
People with the surname
* , Japanese badminton athlete
* , Japanese professional wr ...
'' (1990)
* '' Batoru garu'' (1992)
* '' XX: utsukushiki kyôki'' (1993)
* ''Gokudo no ane Reiko , a Japanese word literally meaning "extreme path" or "wicked" and commonly used as a synonym for yakuza, may refer to:
* ''Gokudo the Adventurer'' (1991), a light novel series by Usagi Nakamura later adapted into a manga (1995) and anime (1999)
* ...
'' (1995)
References
External links
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Bibliography
* Hamamoto, Maki. "Entrails of Kazuo Komizu" (interview), in ''Asian Cult Cinema'', #45.
1946 births
Japanese film directors
Living people
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