Kazuo Komizu

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
BornDecember 14, 1946 (1946-12-14) (age 73)
Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
OccupationFilm director and screenwriter
Years active1968 – present

Biography

He 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
  • 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)
  • Gômon kifujin (1987)
  • Hoshi tsugu mono (1990)
  • Batoru garu (1992)
  • XX: utsukushiki kyôki (1993)
  • Gokudo no ane Reiko (1995)
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References
  1. DVD Details: Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay

Bibliography
  • Hamamoto, Maki. "Entrails of Kazuo Komizu" (interview), in Asian Cult Cinema, #45.


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