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Yoshihiro Nishimura

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Yoshihiro Nishimura  is a Japanese film director, special effects and makeup effects artist, and a screenwriter who has worked predominantly in the horror genre. Nishimura has been described as "a legendary director and effects artist" and "the Tom Savini of Japan" with "talent to burn". He has been credited with establishing a new type of visual film presentation, the "gore effect".

01-04-1969

Birthday

Aries

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

11

Total Films

西村喜广

Also known as (male)

Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

11 Works

producer

15 Works

director

123 Works

writer

18 Works

other

63 Works

The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide

The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide

Why do people no longer see this type of stories nowadays? How can this notion be awakened? Which films should begin to feed back from the past and balance them with the current horror?
0.0

Year:

2025

Meatball Machine : Dissection

Meatball Machine : Dissection

Documentary on the Japanese saga Meatball Machine. Interviews, Archive Images, Retrospective and Analyzes tell the formidable story of a saga that is as gory as it is inventive.
10.0

Year:

2024

The Wizard

The Wizard

Igami would have wanted to be a manga artist, but he become an exorcist. And in this, he excels. When a yakuza boss asks for his help in dealing with a grave curse, he realizes that a supernatural insect master is active behind the scenes. Furthermore, a great master of the supernatural is putting Tokyo in danger. Igami decides to delve into his arsenal of tricks and spells to thwart these plans.
0.0

Year:

2024

Extremity

Extremity

A young woman with a severely troubled past signs up for an extreme haunt called Perdition. She believes that putting herself through Perdition's nightmarish trials will help her exorcise her internal traumas, but has no way of knowing just how shocking her ordeal will be-or what dark secrets buried in her psyche will emerge.
5.3

Year:

2018

Takashi Murakami: The Art of Film

Takashi Murakami: The Art of Film

A behind the scenes look at the making of Jellyfish Eyes by first-time feature-film director, the world-renowned artist, Takashi Murakami.
7.0

Year:

2015

Making F.R.I.E.N.D.s: Behind-the scenes of 'Jellyfish Eyes'

Making F.R.I.E.N.D.s: Behind-the scenes of 'Jellyfish Eyes'

Documentary giving an extensive look into the design and development of the creatures created for artist Takashi Murakami's first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes.
7.0

Year:

2015

BAD FILM

BAD FILM

Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo's Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong's return to Chinese control, masses of people go on a rampage, and love runs wild.
7.3

Year:

2012

Yakuza Weapon

Yakuza Weapon

After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to find his arm replaced with an M61 Vulcan cannon and his leg replaced with a rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Kurawaki has been fitted with mechanical augmentations of his own. Get ready for the second round.
4.4

Year:

2011

Mutant Girls Squad

Mutant Girls Squad

Rin a young high school student is your everyday awkward girl who gets bullied by her fellow students. On her 16th birthday, Rin gets an unexpected surprise: she finds out that she is, on her father's side, a half-mutant.
5.5

Year:

2010

Tokyo Gore Police

Tokyo Gore Police

In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
6.0

Year:

2008

Speakerman: The Boo

Speakerman: The Boo

The story of an odd creature called the Speakerman, who served duty in a small mining village by sounding the siren/megaphone that is his head to tell the workers when it was time for lunch and to alert people in case of a mining accident. When the mine closes, Speakerman ends up lonely and in search of new friends and meaning in his life.
0.0

Year:

2004