Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi, born April 19, 1946) is a
Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics
include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote
and directed two entries in the Guinea Pig series of horror films:
Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985), and Mermaid in a Manhole
(1988).Hideshi Hino was born in Qiqihar to Japanese immigrant workers
in Japanese-occupied Northeast China just when Japan surrendered at
the end of World War II to the invading Soviet forces. His family
escaped to Japan fearing retribution from Chinese civilians, so his
town gathered up everybody and started to make their move to the
remaining internationally governed harbours.Hino has claimed that he
was nearly killed en route to Japan by his fellow townspeople during
the evacuation from China. Some of his manga have been based on his
life and its events; for example, his grandfather was a Yakuza and his
father used to be a pig farmer with a spider tattoo on his back. Hino
has depicted these in his manga many times (as in Panorama of
Hell).Although originally considering a job in the film industry, the
works of manga artists Shigeru Sugiura and Yoshiharu Tsuge inspired
the young Hino to express himself in the medium of manga instead. He
originally began in doujinshi, and his first professional work was
published in Osamu Tezuka's experimental manga magazine COM in 1967.
With appearances in Garo and the serialized "Hideshi Hino's Shocking
Theater" coming out in 1971, his bizarre world of deviant killers,
grotesque beasts, and decaying corpses was firmly established.
Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics
include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote
and directed two entries in the Guinea Pig series of horror films:
Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985), and Mermaid in a Manhole
(1988).Hideshi Hino was born in Qiqihar to Japanese immigrant workers
in Japanese-occupied Northeast China just when Japan surrendered at
the end of World War II to the invading Soviet forces. His family
escaped to Japan fearing retribution from Chinese civilians, so his
town gathered up everybody and started to make their move to the
remaining internationally governed harbours.Hino has claimed that he
was nearly killed en route to Japan by his fellow townspeople during
the evacuation from China. Some of his manga have been based on his
life and its events; for example, his grandfather was a Yakuza and his
father used to be a pig farmer with a spider tattoo on his back. Hino
has depicted these in his manga many times (as in Panorama of
Hell).Although originally considering a job in the film industry, the
works of manga artists Shigeru Sugiura and Yoshiharu Tsuge inspired
the young Hino to express himself in the medium of manga instead. He
originally began in doujinshi, and his first professional work was
published in Osamu Tezuka's experimental manga magazine COM in 1967.
With appearances in Garo and the serialized "Hideshi Hino's Shocking
Theater" coming out in 1971, his bizarre world of deviant killers,
grotesque beasts, and decaying corpses was firmly established.
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