is a

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and

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who has worked in the

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and horror genres.

Life and career

Tomomatsu was born in

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, Japan in 1967. He was interested in

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and film from high school and started working as an office assistant to manga artist

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. In 1992, he wrote his first screenplay for

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's pink film ''The Pregnant Woman'' (ザ・妊婦). His first film as a director was the independently produced in 1992 but he made his debut as a commercial director in 1993 for ENK (ＥＮＫプロ) with the film ''Baraado ni idaka re te'' (バラードに抱かれて), for which he also wrote the screenplay. Tomomatsu mixed genres with his pink film-thriller-gangster movie ''Kogyaru-gui: Oosaka terekura hen'' (コギャル喰い　大阪テレクラ篇), known in English as ''Eat the Schoolgirl'' or ''Eating Schoolgirls: Osaka Telephone Club'', released in Japan March 10, 1997. The film, which Tomomatsu directed and co-wrote, follows two young men working for the

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, one of them a telephone-sex addict, the other gets sexual gratification from killing while dressed as a schoolgirl. A reviewer described it as "one depraved sex scene after another". It was also released as a DVD in May 2004. Tomomatsu is best known internationally for his August 2001 comic-horror zombie film ''

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'' also known as ''Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies''. With various references to

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's films, this teen-aged girl zombie work was called "a good effort at expanding a staid subgenre" by AllMovie. A March 2005 drama, ''Kiss me or kill me: Todokanakutemo aishiteru'' (kiss me or kill me　届かなくても愛してる), written and directed by Tomomatsu, starred

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Asami and was produced by Tomomatsu's first employer

. Another pink film directed by Tomomatsu, , produced by

, won the 3rd place Best Film award at the 2005

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ceremony. In April 2006, he returned to the zombie genre when he directed and co-wrote the V-Cinema horror film, featuring AV actress

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. Also in 2006, he directed AV star Sakura Sakurada in the V-Cinema erotic video ''My Sister's Secret'' (妹の秘密). He won a second award at the

when his film released by

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won an Honorable Mention for Best Film at the 2008 ceremony. For '' Maid-Droid'', Tomomatsu was named Best Director at the 2009 Pink Grand Prix. The 2009 production brought together an ensemble of Japanese gore and action talent. Tomomatsu co-directed with

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, the director of ''

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'' who also did the special effects for ''

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''. The fight choreographer was

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who had previously worked with Nishimura on ''Tokyo Gore Police'' and ''

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'' and directed his own '' Yoroi: Samurai Zombie''. The screenplay was written by Tomomatsu and his one-time boss Shungicu Uchida, based on her manga of the same name. The movie had its world premiere as a Centerpiece Presentation at the

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on June 26 and opened in Japan August 15, 2009. In 2011, Tomomatsu directed the

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science fiction horror film released in Japan as ''Karei naru erogami-ke no ichizoku: Shinsō reijō wa denki shitsuji no yume o miru ka'' () and internationally with English subtitles as ''Erotibot'' in September 2011. The work, starring three AV actresses, Mahiro Aine,

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and Asami, had its European premier at the 12th Japan Film Fest Hamburg in May 2011. In 2012 he released ''Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead'' and began casting extras for a sequel.

Awards

Pink Grand Prix

* 2005 3rd place: * 2008: Honorable mention: * 2009: 2nd place '' Maid-Droid'' as (Tomomatsu was named Best Director for this film) * 2009: 3rd place:

References

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