Kazuo Komizu

Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu
Born	December 14, 1946 (1946-12-14) (age 78) Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Occupation(s)	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: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 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)
• 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)

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.