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, (b. September 3, 1936 in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture

File:WakayamaMapCurrent.png is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Wakayama, Wakayama....
) is an author of Japanese
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 horror
Horror fiction

Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience....
 manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
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He is often considered to be the godfather of the genre. He had his first book of manga published while still in high school and made manga his career immediately upon graduation. After moving to Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 in 1962 he developed his detailed horror manga style and has since published his comics in every genre from horror fiction
Horror fiction

Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience....
 to science fiction
Science fiction

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Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves....
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, (b. September 3, 1936 in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture
Wakayama Prefecture

File:WakayamaMapCurrent.png is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on the Kii Peninsula in the Kansai region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Wakayama, Wakayama....
) is an author of Japanese
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 horror
Horror fiction

Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience....
 manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
.

He is often considered to be the godfather of the genre. He had his first book of manga published while still in high school and made manga his career immediately upon graduation. After moving to Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 in 1962 he developed his detailed horror manga style and has since published his comics in every genre from horror fiction
Horror fiction

Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience....
 to science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 to humour
Humour

Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves....
. He won the 20th Shogakukan Manga Award
Shogakukan Manga Award

The Shogakukan Manga Award is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers....
 in 1975 for The Drifting Classroom
The Drifting Classroom

is a horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu. It was awarded the 20th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1975.The story was adapted into a Japanese live action movie in 1987, and given a modern setting at an international school in Kobe....
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Bibliography

  • Orochi: Blood
  • The Drifting Classroom
    The Drifting Classroom

    is a horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu. It was awarded the 20th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1975.The story was adapted into a Japanese live action movie in 1987, and given a modern setting at an international school in Kobe....
  • My Name is Shingo
  • Makoto-chan
    Makoto-chan

    is a shonen gag manga by Kazuo Umezu. The series was initially published in Shonen Sunday from the late 1970s through the early 1980s, and later returned at the end of the decade retitled as "Heisei-ban Makoto-chan"....
  • Again
  • Iara
  • Baptism of Blood
  • Fourteen Years
  • Left Hand of God, Right Hand of the Devil
  • Scary Book
  • Reptilia
    Reptilia (manga)

    Reptilia is a horror manga written and drawn by Kazuo Umezu. The manga, titled in the original Japanese language, is a series of three stories involving a shapeshifting snake-woman who haunts a Japanese village....
  • Nekome Kozo
  • Cat Eyed Boy


Filmography

  • Drifting Classroom (movie)
  • Blood Baptism (movie)
  • Long Love Letter: Drifting Classroom (TV Drama)


External links

  • (Japanese/English/German)
  • at The Ultimate Manga Page
  • at The Lambiek
    Lambiek

    Lambiek is a comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker.It also hosts exhibitions of art by comic creators like Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Erik Kriek, Andr? Franquin, Tanino Liberatore and Chris Ware....
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