Kazuo Umezz
Kazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz (楳図 かずお, Umezu Kazuo, birth name 楳図一雄; born September 3, 1936) is a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. Starting his career in the 1950s, he is among the most famous artists of horror manga and has been vital for its development, considered the "god of horror manga". In 1960s shōjo manga like Reptilia, he broke the industry's conventions by combining the aesthetics of the commercial manga industry with gruesome visual imagery inspired by Japanese folktales, which created a boom of horror manga and influenced manga artists of following generations. He created successful manga series such as The Drifting Classroom, Makoto-chan and My Name Is Shingo, until he retired from drawing manga in the mid 1990s. He is also a public figure in Japan, known for wearing red-and-white-striped shirts and doing his signature "Gwash" hand gesture.
Known For | Writing |
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Most Rating | 9.433 |
Birthday | 1936-09-03 |
Place of Birth | Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan |
Also Known As | 楳図 かずお, |
2008
Gu Gu, the Cat
6.75/8
Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as he...
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Gu Gu, the Cat
2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
0/0
An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.
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Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
2003
Gozamareji
0/0
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Gozamareji
1990
Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
5/4
A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled is thrown into turmoil when a mu...
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Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
1986
Monster Heaven
0/0
An anthology of strange horror tales featuring yokai. It begins with astronauts finding a katana on the moon.
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Monster Heaven
2005
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
6.5/2
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
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Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
1993
Kazuo Umezu's Terror Zone: Horror!
0/0
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Kazuo Umezu's Terror Zone: Horror!
1980
Makoto-chan
8/1
The series follows the odd life of kindergartener Makoto Sawada and his family. Makoto gets into all sorts of toilet and adult humor. He sometimes dre...
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Makoto-chan
1965
Hoodlum Soldier
7.3/3
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an e...
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Hoodlum Soldier
2006
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
4/4
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand t...
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God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
2014
Why Horror?
6.1/20
Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
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Why Horror?
2005
Tokyo Zombie
5.628/40
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the...
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Tokyo Zombie
1968
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
6.5/11
Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's al...
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