Kazuo Komizu
Born December 14, 1946 is a Japanese film director from Miyagi Prefecture, mainly focusing on violent sex and gore films.
Kazuo Komizu
- Name
- Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu
- Born
- December 14, 1946
- Birthplace
- Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director and screenwriter
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Born December 14, 1946 is a Japanese film director from Miyagi Prefecture, mainly focusing on violent sex and gore films.
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Kazuo Komizu (born 1946) is a Japanese actor, film director and photographer, among other activities. The actor was born in Sendai. Languages used include Japanese.
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• Name — Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu • Born — December 14, 1946 • Birthplace — Miyagi Prefecture, Japan • Occupation — Film director and screenwriter • Years Active — 1968 – present
Biography
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. His nickname, "Gaira", apparently comes from a Japanese monster in the film Furankenshutain no kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira (1966).
Filmography
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) • 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)
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Kazuo Komizu is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as film director, screenwriter, actor and photographer.
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1946
Kazuo Komizu was born on 14 December 1946.
1982
バイオレンス・ポルノ 縄と暴行 (1982) Kazuo Komizu is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- Hamamoto, Maki. "Entrails of Kazuo Komizu" (interview), in Asian Cult Cinema, #45.
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