Kazuo Komizu
Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu | |
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| Born | December 14, 1946 (age 74) |
| Occupation | Film director and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1968 – present |
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.
Biography[]
He has a small following outside Japan thanks to a couple of notorious films: 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[]
- (1968)
- Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) (writing)
- (1970)
- (1982)
- (1985)
- (1986)
- Shojo no harawata (1986)
- (1986)
- (1987)
- (1990)
- (1992)
- (1993)
- (1995)
References[]
External links[]
- Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu at IMDb
- 小水一男 (Kazuo Komizu) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
Bibliography[]
- Hamamoto, Maki. "Entrails of Kazuo Komizu" (interview), in Asian Cult Cinema, #45.
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