Kazuo Komizu (小水 一男, Komizu Kazuo, born December 14, 1946) is a Japanese film director from Miyagi Prefecture, mainly focusing on violent sex and gore films.
Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu | |
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| Born | December 14, 1946 (age 77) Miyagi Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1968 – present |
Biography
editHe has a small following outside Japan thanks to a couple of notorious films:Entrails of a Beauty and Entrails of a Virgin. 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.[1]
His nickname, "Gaira", apparently comes from a Japanese monster in the film War of the Gargantuas (フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ, Furankenshutain no kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira) (1966).
Filmography
edit- Seiyugi (1968)
- Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) (writing)
- Seizoku (1970)
- Sailor-fuku shikijo shiiku (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 (1990)
- Batoru garu (1992)
- XX: utsukushiki kyôki (1993)
- Gokudo no ane Reiko (1995)
References
editExternal links
edit- Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu at IMDb
- 小水一男 (Kazuo Komizu) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
Bibliography
edit- Hamamoto, Maki. "Entrails of Kazuo Komizu" (interview), in Asian Cult Cinema, #45.
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