Yoshihiro Nishimura, the director behind movies like “Tokyo Gore Police” and “Welcome to Japan,” died Monday in Tokyo following an almost two-week hospital keep for liver illness. He was 59.
Nishimura’s profession started within the early 2000s, throughout which he directed and created results for numerous quick movies earlier than directing “Tokyo Gore Police,” his first business launch, in 2008. The movie, which screened at numerous international festivals, has been credited for opening the door for a brand new wave of Japanese ultra-violent horror and science-fiction cinema.
Nishimura went on to direct movies together with “Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl,” “Helldriver,” “The Ninja War of Torakage,” “Meatball Machine Kodoku,” “Welcome to Japan” and “Tokyo Dragon Chef,” amongst others. He additionally labored on segments of the horror movies “Mutant Girls Squad” and “The ABCs of Death.” On the time of his demise, Nishimura was in post-production on his forthcoming movie “Geisha War.”
Along with directing, Nishimura based the manufacturing and particular results firm Nishimura Eizo Co., Ltd, and labored on high-profile initiatives together with the 2016 movie “Shin Godzilla,” on which he served as Godzilla’s moldmaking supervisor and particular modeling producer.
Nishimura was born in Tokyo on April 1, 1967. As a baby, he fell in love with movie after seeing George Lucas’ “Star Wars,” and ultimately went on to attend Aoyama Gakuin College in Shibuya, Tokyo, the place he studied legislation.
Nishimura wrote, directed and created the particular results for the acclaimed quick movie “Anatomia Extinction” in 1995, which gained an award at that yr’s Yubari Worldwide Improbable Movie Pageant and kicked off his skilled profession.
Throughout his profession, he usually attended The New York Asian Movie Pageant, Austin’s Improbable Fest, Montreal’s Fantasia Worldwide Movie Pageant, Dallas’ Texas Frightmare and Pasadena’s Monsterpalooza. Nishimura taught movie courses and artwork workshops round Tokyo lately, and hosted gallery openings for his and his college students’ work.
Actress Eihi Shiina, a frequent collaborator of the director, said, “Horror has lost a real visionary, and I have lost a friend.”
