Kazuo Komizu (å° æ°´ 一ç"·, Komizu Kazuo, born December 14, 1946) is
a Japanese film director from Miyagi Prefecture, mainly focusing on
violent sex and gore films.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
(ãƒ•ãƒ©ãƒ³ã‚±ãƒ³ã‚·ãƒ¥ã‚¿ã‚¤ãƒ³ã ®æ€ªç £ サンダ対ガイラ,
Furankenshutain no kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira) (1966).
a Japanese film director from Miyagi Prefecture, mainly focusing on
violent sex and gore films.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
(ãƒ•ãƒ©ãƒ³ã‚±ãƒ³ã‚·ãƒ¥ã‚¿ã‚¤ãƒ³ã ®æ€ªç £ サンダ対ガイラ,
Furankenshutain no kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira) (1966).
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