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:Yoshihiro Nishimura

{{Short description|Japanese film director}}

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| name = Yoshihiro Nishimura

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| caption = Nishimura at the 2010 Sitges Film Festival.

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|4|1}}

| birth_place = Japan

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| occupation = Make-up artist
Special effects
Film director
Screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1995 –

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{{nihongo|Yoshihiro Nishimura|西村喜廣|Nishimura Yoshihiro}} 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"{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/06/new_york_asian_film_fest_guest.html|title=New York Asian Film Fest Guests Yoshihiro Nishimura...|publisher=New York Magazine]|last=Ebiri|first=Bilge|date=June 30, 2009|access-date=2009-07-26}} and "the Tom Savini of Japan" with "talent to burn".{{cite web|url=http://www.hiff.org/filmmakers/qa-2008-yoshihiro-nishimura.php |title=Q&A with Yoshihiro Nishimura |publisher=[www.hiff.org] |date=October 15, 2008 |last=Soeda |first=Jason |access-date=2009-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103101124/http://www.hiff.org/filmmakers/qa-2008-yoshihiro-nishimura.php |archive-date=January 3, 2009 }}

Life and career

Nishimura, born on April 1, 1967,{{cite web|url=http://www.nishi-eizo.com/member.html|title=MEMBER 西村 喜廣 ニシムラ ヨシヒロ|publisher=[www.nishi-eizo.com]|access-date=2009-07-25|language=ja}} had been interested in film from childhood but a major influence on his career was a painting by Salvador Dalí with distorted human bodies that he saw when in elementary school. He majored in law in college.{{cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/yoshi-nishimura-interview/|title=An Interview with TOKYO GORE POLICE Director Yoshihiro Nishimura|publisher=[twitchfilm.net]|access-date=2009-07-25|last=Perkins|first=Rodney|date=October 28, 2008}} Nishimura has said that he doesn't watch much television or movies but reads horror magazines and gets much of his inspiration from his dreams.{{cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/yoshihiro-nishimura-talks-tokyo-gore-police/|title=Yoshihiro Nishimura Talks TOKYO GORE POLICE!|publisher=[twitchfilm.net]|access-date=2009-07-25|last=Brown|first=Todd|date=June 25, 2008}}

He started making films while in junior high school by teaching himself about filming, lighting, special effects and modeling.{{cite web|url=http://www.asiafilmfest.de/downloads/pressebilder/tokyo_gore_police_production_notes.pdf |title=Tokyo Gore Police KEY STAFF/CREW Yoshihiro Nishimura |publisher=[www.asiafilmfest.de] |access-date=2009-07-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718200904/http://www.asiafilmfest.de/downloads/pressebilder/tokyo_gore_police_production_notes.pdf |archive-date=July 18, 2011 }} In 1995 with a small crew he made the independently produced movie Anatomia Extinction (限界人口係数,Genkai jinkō keisū meaning boundary population coefficient). Nishimura wrote the screenplay, directed, and did the special effects. The film was shown at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1995 where it won a Special Jury Award. The film would later form the basis for Tokyo Gore Police.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0153161/|title=Genkai jinkô keisû (1995)|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-25}}

For several years, Nishimura did special effects and special makeup effects for a number of movies including the controversial thriller from Sion Sono, Suicide Club,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312843/|title=Jisatsu sâkuru (2001)|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=237265|title=自殺サークル SUICIDE CIRCLE|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-26|language=ja}} and Noboru Iguchi's 2003 comedy-romance-horror {{nihongo|A Larva to Love|恋する幼虫|Koi-suru Yōchū}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454179/|title=Koi-suru yôchû (2003)|date=14 February 2004|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-25}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=319353|script-title=ja:恋する幼虫|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-26|language=ja}} In 2005, he did the special effects for the science fiction horror film {{nihongo|Meatball Machine|ミートボールマシン|Mîtobōru mashin}} directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi and Jun'ichi Yamamoto.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0820111/|title=Meatball Machine|date=April 2006|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-25}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=325807|title=MEATBALL MACHINE -ミートボールマシン-|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-25|language=ja}} One review of the film says "the makeup and special effects that the film is sold on are solid. Produced on a very meager budget, the make-up appliances look great."{{cite web|url=http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/10681/1/DVD-REVIEW-MEATBALL-MACHINE/Page1.html |title=DVD REVIEW: MEATBALL MACHINE |publisher=[www.chud.com] |access-date=2009-07-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925223548/http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/10681/1/DVD-REVIEW-MEATBALL-MACHINE/Page1.html |archive-date=September 25, 2009 }}

Nishimura worked with Noboru Iguchi again in 2008 when he was in charge of special effects and makeup effects for the low-budget action and gore film The Machine Girl.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050160/|title=Kataude mashin gâru (2008)|date=23 May 2008|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=330189|title=片腕マシンガール THE MACHINE GIRL|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-26|language=ja}} When he finished The Machine Girl, Media Blasters, the USA distributors of the DVD, asked if he wanted to do another movie. He decided to do a re-make of his earlier short film Anatomia Extinction from 1995 and created the science fiction horror movie Tokyo Gore Police. Nishimura co-wrote the screenplay, directed the movie, did the special make-up effects and modeling, and had a small cameo role as well.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183732/|title=Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu (2008)|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=331428|title=東京残酷警察 TOKYO GORE POLICE|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-26|language=ja}} Nishimura said that one difference was that as director, he could no longer take naps during breaks as he could when he was only concerned with special effects.

In 2009, he did the makeup effects on Samurai Princess (also called Samurai Princess: Devil Princess) for director Kengo Kaji,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1412334/|title=Samurai purinsesu: Gedô-hime (2009)|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=333634|title=サムライプリンセス 外道姫 SAMURAI PRINCESS|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-26|language=ja}} and also on director Kōsuke Suzuki's Stop the Bitch Campaign.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1363366/|title=Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô (2009)|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=333022|title=STOP THE BITCH CAMPAIGN 援助交際撲滅運動|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-26|language=ja}} For the 2009 production of {{nihongo|Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl|吸血少女対少女フランケン|Kyūketsu Shōjo tai Shōjo Furanken}}, Nishimura teamed with Naoyuki Tomomatsu as co-director and with fight choreographer Taku Sakaguchi who had previously worked with Nishimura on Tokyo Gore Police and Meatball Machine.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1425928/|title=Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken (2009)|publisher=IMdB|access-date=2009-07-24}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=334060|script-title=ja:吸血少女対少女フランケン|publisher=allcinema.net|access-date=2009-07-24|language=ja}} The movie had its world premier at the New York Asian Film Festival on June 26{{cite web|url=http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147&Itemid=93|title=VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL (JAPAN, 2009)|publisher=[www.subwaycinema.com]|access-date=2009-07-24}} and opened in Japan August 15, 2009.

Nishimura started his own effects company based in Tokyo, Nishimura Eizo Co., Ltd. Partnering with visual effects company Studio Buckhorn and Studio HigeMigane in 2010, it became part of Pabaan: The Image Production Group.

{{cite web|url=http://www.pabaan.jp/|title=Pabaan: Official Website|publisher=[pabaan.jp]|access-date=2011-06-01}}

In 2010, Nishimura co-directed Mutant Girls Squad with Noboru Iguchi and Tak Sakaguchi, as well as directing the action/horror film Helldriver, his first solo directing duty since "Tokyo Gore Police." The same year, he created the special effects for Horny House of Horror, starring AV starlets Asami, Mint Suzuki, and Saori Hara.

In 2011, Nishimura directed the "Killer" music video for Osaka rock band {{nihongo|The 50 Kaitenz|ザ５０回転ズ|The 50 Kaitenz}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.50kaiten.com/|title=the50kaitenz: Official Website|publisher=[50kaiten.com/]|access-date=2011-07-28}}

Nishimura directed the music video for Ena Fujita's June 2018 single "Ienai Koto wa Uta no Naka". It was released in two versions as the uncensored one was banned from TV due to its gore.{{cite web |title = ビキニ姿の藤田恵名「言えない事は歌の中」MVで胸から血しぶき、閲覧注意の"未検閲ver." |url = https://natalie.mu/music/news/286360 |work = Natalie |language = ja |date = June 12, 2018 |access-date = September 27, 2020}} Nishimura then expanded the music video into the October 2019 feature film Welcome to Japan: Hinomaru Lunch Box, which Fujita also stars in.{{cite web |title = 殺し道具はランチボックス、藤田恵名が不良外国人と戦う主演作の予告解禁 |url = https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/349153 |work = Natalie |language = ja |date = September 27, 2019 |access-date = September 27, 2020}}

Credits

as a Director

Awards

Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival

  • 1995 Special Jury Award Off Theatre Competition: Anatomia Extinction (Genkai jinkō keisū){{cite web

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Fant-Asia Film Festival

  • 2009 3rd Place Guru Prize For Most Energetic Film
  • 2008 Best Asian Film: Tokyo Gore Police{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1883583/awards|title=Awards for Yoshihiro Nishimura|publisher=[IMdB]|access-date=2009-07-26}}

Cyber Horror Awards

  • 2008 Nominee for Best Film: Tokyo Gore Police{{cite web|url=http://cyberhorrorawards.blogspot.com/|title=2008 Cyber Horror Awards|publisher=[Cyber Horror Awards]|access-date=2009-07-26}}
  • 2008 Nominee for Tom Savini Award for Best Makeup: Yoshihiro Nishimura

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|1883583}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0367140.htm|script-title=ja:友松直之|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|access-date=2009-07-26|language=ja}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=295660|script-title=ja:西村喜廣 にしむら・よしひろ|access-date=2009-07-26|publisher=allcinema.net|language=ja}}

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