Kazuo Umezu
Writing
Born 1936-09-03
Died 2024-10-28
Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
37 credits
Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance 1
Awards
Won 1 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance Award
Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance 1 won
- 2018 Inheritance Won
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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.
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Filmography
Writing
21 credits
Long Love Letter
Evil Heart
Cat-Eyed Boy
Mother
Makoto-chan
The Curse of Kazuo Umezu
The Drifting Classroom
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
Orochi - Blood
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
Drifting School
My Name is Shingo
God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Present
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: The Wish
Baptism of Blood
A Remodeled Beauty
Umezu Kazuo no Gyaru 10 Island
Acting
17 credits
Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか？
Cat-Eyed Boy
Makoto-chan
The Drifting Classroom
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Tokyo Zombie
Cat-Eyed Boy
Why Horror?
Gu Gu, the Cat
Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Orochi - Blood
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
Tamami: The Baby's Curse
Kazuo Umezu's Terror Zone: Horror!
Umezu Kazuo no Gyaru 10 Island
Other credits
5 credits
Directing
2 credits
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