Kazuo Kamimura

As the creator of the famous detective Akechi Kogoro, Edogawa Ranpo is one of Japan's leading writers of mystery, detective, horror, and popular entertainment novels, and his name has been awarded the Edogawa Ranpo Award, the highest award for mystery novels. (1884-1965). In the year 50 years after his death, we have reprinted and re-edited the supreme masterpieces created by various talented famous manga artists of the mature Showa period into graphic works, using the dazzling world of monsters and strangeness of the Taisho and early Showa periods as a motif, will be published in B6 size (regular comics with cover), which is easy to read and affordable.

Stories included in the collection: Akai Heya Kayotta Onna Oba-san wa Lesbian Takekurabe no Goro Hana Gomori no Koro Nigorie no Koro

The title work \`\`Benihana Prison'' depicts the story of a beautiful woman who is imprisoned and turned into a toy during the Edo era. There are 10 songs in total.

Based on the life of the writer Higuchi Ichiyō (1872–96), the reader can learn a good deal about her life and work from its episodes.

Modeled after the Kikuzaka Hotel in Hongo, where Yumeji Takehisa lived with his girlfriend, Oha, the story is told through the eyes of Yaeko, the daughter of the owner of the Kikuzaka Hotel, who portrays the lives of such historical writers and painters.

Tomoko Otomo, also known as "Tomato," is 16 years old. She was orphaned after her parents were killed in a traffic accident. She was placed with relatives, but she ran away from home because she could not bear the abuse. Since then, she has been living on her own by selling her body. Tomato's motto is "Health," her hobby is "Swimming," and her outlook on life is "Leave it all on a tropical island." The genius of the artist vividly depicts Tomato's free-spirited life and the human drama involving various people who cross paths with her!

Compilation of shorts. A boy and Matsumura, who have been best friends since junior high school and have alternately dominated the top spot, enter a prestigious high school with the most fights. The boy often went to Matsumura's house to hang out, but eventually the distance between them began to grow. A friendship shaken by an awakening to sex...

Konma comes from a distant planet, Mango, and gets lost on a trip to subspace, landing on Earth, where she meets Momiage, an editor she met in town, and ends up working as an assistant to Matsui, a female manga artist. Eventually, Konma's interest in shoujo manga leads to a series of outlandish incidents involving Matsui-sensei and Momiage.

Japan in the sixties, Sumire, a twenty-year-old woman, works as a saleswoman in a department store. She refuses to depend on a man to live and sees her own body as a weapon to create herself a place in society. A contract to guarantee her freedom, to fight against this machismo that hinders women. But can one protect oneself from human nature and one's own feelings?

Mu, an alien, just moved into the apartment next door, 60 centimetres away from the room of Ken-chan, an unsuccessful graphic artist, at the Venus Manor. The man is driven mad by her mysterious charm. Soon, Mu starts to work at a cabaret, Ken and the people around him get caught up in an unusual commotion due to Mu's free-spirited and mysterious charm.

Collection of shorts and oneshots. Title story was originally published between 1977 and 1978 in Comic Yarou.

A blind woman, Onami, falls in love with Shinsuke, the son of a blind person on a journey. Onami is pregnant with Shinsuke's child, but Shinsuke abandons her at the last minute, and Onami has her right hand and both ears cut off by the blind woman's law. Still, Ohami chose to go raw. For the sake of another life to be born.... A blind person's cry that roars in the stormy sea... One of the 13 Nights of the Grudge's Spirit series released in 1976.

Hotaruko is a twenty-one year old who has had her love stolen from her. Broken in love with the one she cares about, Hotaruk meets Kaori, a girl whose husband was taken away from her and who has a crazy mother. It's a wistful, sad, yet beautiful story, like a lyric song about a woman's lament.

August 15 1945, a plane from the US Air Forces crashes in a field in the Chiba region. Thus begins, the day of Japan's capitulation, that great bildungsroman about Kinta, a young boy raised by his grandfather after his mother's death.

Sachiko is a prostitute living a bright and strong life of adolescence, set in the old red line of Shinjuku 2-chome. "I don't know the pleasure of sexuality that makes me drown, but the men who have passed by my body make a joyful voice." This is the story of Sachiko, a prostitute who blooms beautifully but sadly in the midst of the bondage called red.

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as an apprentice (Shikomikka) in an okiya. The house where the geisha live. By doing the commissions of his elders, Tsuru will discover the lives of these women. Finally, one day, her turn arrives. She goes to her benefactor's room. Who, by paying the ceremony fees, will bring it into the world of geisha. Tsuru will then take the name of Tsurugiku and become a famous geisha in the world of pleasures.

Yuko, known as "Mama", is only 25 years old. She ties her hair to look older and more credible in her role as a hostess bar owner in Ginza, a suburb of Tokyo. Despite her youth, she has been divorced for two years and has a baby girl, Asako, whom she has placed with her mother in the countryside. Regularly harassed by her ex-husband, she must also manage the excesses of her employees, the indelicacy of the customers, her attraction to Ken-Chan, her bartender, and financial problems at the dawn of a major economic crisis.

Edo period, a young draftsman, Sutehachi, arrives at Katsuhika Hokusai's house, the genius of the print and his daughter O-ei. If the boy's passion for drawing does not give way to that of the master, haunted just like him by the passion of the print, he is also very attracted by the world of pleasures.

An beautiful but otherwise ordinary woman, Kuniko Konshindji works as a secretary for a lingerie manufacturer, where she has a behind-the-scenes view into the glamorous fashion industry that is sensual and bewitching, but also tinged with sadness. Kazuo Kamimura faithfully adapts Kajiyama's unique erotic novel that features lesbianism, fetishism, SM, and cross-dressing, but also incorporates aspects of industrial espionage and corporate warfare.

Collection of ten short stories written and drawn by Kazuo Kamimura at the beginning of his career.

Kyoko (21) and Jiro (23) live together in Tokyo without being married. She is a graphist in an advertisement agency, he's starting to be an illustrator. We follow them through their love struggles and daily life with friends and family in a world where sexual revolution is about to start.

The story of a girl who dreams of becoming Japan's biggest star. She is willing to do anything to achieve her goal, even devour anyone who stands in her way. Yu Aku (one of the most influential lyricists and TV writers in Japanese history) and Kazuo Kamimura, long-time friends, collaborate in this work that expresses all the cruelty and ruthlessness of show business.

The portrait of a girl in 60s -70s in Japan. Maria depicts the chaotic trajectory of a wealthy girl, whose family made a fortune in the after war. New arrival in a school of girls, Maria is independent and indomitable. She sleeps indifferently with girls or boys, and causes confusion among students as well as teachers, attracting fights and disasters. With Maria, the story of a teenager in 70's Japan, master Kazuo Kamimura tackles the taboos of his time. The excellence of its staging, the elegance of its line, serve wonderfully a striking, uncompromising writing. As with "Dosei Jidai", and in the image of the new wave, Kazuo Kamimura upsets the Japanese society and blows a new wind on the manga. Perhaps the most sultry of Kamimura titles.

A story of twisted sexuality that takes place in a closed apartment building. A total of nine episodes are included, including "The Italian Baby Carriage," which depicts the grief of a foreign wife Italy, "Dry Flower," which depicts the love and sex between two wounded women, and "The House of the Scarlet Peony," which depicts the madness of a woman in Ginza who is enchanted by a scarlet peony carving.

Collection of 10 shorts by the author, published between 1970 and 1972 Lagrima (涙 - 1969!) Shiroi Natsu (白い夏 - 1971) Kanzen naru toan yōshi (完全なる答案用紙 - 1970) Shinya hoso shinju jiken (深夜放送心中事件 - 1970) Hatsukoi wa shiokara no ajida to itta onna (初恋は塩辛の味だといった女 - 1971) Haru kake o tsuru onna (春駆け落つる女) Shiroi parasoru (白いパラソル - 1974! ) Tenohira no ase to shuchishin no kankei ni tsuite (手のひらの汗と羞恥心の関係について) IN THE SMOG - 1971 Bokyo (望郷 - 1971)

Includes works that were serialized in Shonen Magazine in 1970. His method of depicting young people's' awakening sexuality against the backdrop of beautiful scenery established Kazuo Kamimura's worldview as a gekiga artist.

A slave girl's desire for revenge, the past of a woman who curses her own life, the madness of a mother who ends her child's life; in this volume are collected some of the first stories written and drawn by Kamimura that most reflect the theme of emotions and the cruelty of human nature.

Amon was a mixed-race ukiyoe artist born to a fallen Christian father and a Japanese mother in the Meiwa era. Set in Edo, Amon becomes a popular ukiyoe artist through the drama of the women who surround him. In order to portray the true beauty of a woman, Amon takes on the task of writing.

In 2006 the Japanese publisher found extra material for a new volume starring the same character, but in a different historical context.

A woman and a man stop and stare at each other in a crowd of people coming and going. In the hot air, they find each other in the pack, even though it's been eight years... A sad story of a man and a woman is being told somewhere in the city today.

Set in a small club called "Utopia" in Ginza, this is a Ginza midnight story about a group of charming people including the owner, Aya-mama, Chii-mama, Chigako, Susie and Haruka hostess, and Gin-san, a doorman with 30 years of experience in Ginza.

In Shanghai in the late 1920s, the son of a poor cook, is attracted to a beautiful woman in a brothel across the street. "How could such a beautiful woman be in a brothel?" He goes to the brothel to check it out and finds the beautiful woman who is being played by the king of the casino, Sir Stephen. He tries to make money to buy her by blending in with the revolutionary "Red Guards," but what fate awaits him after his wish is fulfilled is totally different.... This story was serialized in the Tokyo Sports Newspaper to promote the film "Shanghai Ijin Shoukan - China Doll," directed by Shuji Terayama.

Misae, a survivor of the new left-wing group Ten no Koe, travels to Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and begins working as a junior high school teacher, hiding her true identity. However, the classes she teaches are full of troubled students. As she teaches them, Misae gradually awakens to her true calling as a teacher.

Kazuo Kamimura and Natsuo Sekikawa collection of shorts. Hardboiled themes.

Rintaro Hibiki, an assistant director in the pink films industry, is seduced by the various women he meets in the "Ougongai", Shinjuku's Golden entertainment District in Tokyo: among them a beautiful girl who looks like an actress from the silent film era in her youth and the queen of a secret club where big names in the political and business world go to every night... A series of works depicting the world behind the silver screen based on the original works by film director Norifumi Suzuki (Sex and Fury).

Chico, a Puerto Rican novice police officer who was sent to the 69th police department of the New York Police Department. The first buddy, Bart, is a man nicknamed Mute. Kill or be killed is a game! Burt was killed in the line of duty. An erotic action film about Chico, who is caught in a dilemma between justice and reality, while being caught in the rough waters of the city.

Yumeji's popularity has been rising due to the success of his art book, despite his wife's dispute with Tamaki, but he was cut off as a western-style painter and suffers between his family and his lover. Kazuo Kamimura's homage to Yumeji Takehisa, who had been a admiring since he was a boy, this work is the first book to be recorded with the unreleased and unfinished eighth episode whose serialization was interrupted due to the bankruptcy of the publisher.

Shoko Takano is a beautiful girl born between a rebellious critic and a famous geisha in Yanagibashi. After her father disappeared, she lost her mother in an air raid and became a vagrant child, becoming the leader of a war orphan group. Shoko grows from a girl to a woman as she suffers a wave of disgrace under the post-war devastation.

Azusa Wakaba, the daughter of Azusa Fumiko, famous film actress, jumps into the film industry with her beauty to find the truth behind her mother's mysterious suicide. Wakaba catches the eye of Murase Takayuki, a man on the verge of a promotion to director, and wins the lead role, but Murase loses his job to his mentor, Makiguchi, a master of the film industry. In a world where lust becomes murderous intent and hatred abounds, Wakaba's starring film is...

Japan, mid-30s... A young prostitute falls in love with a restaurant owner, spending endless nights of love with him - until she finally strangles him in his sleep. Not out of anger or jealousy, but out of deep affection. She emasculated him after his death and is caught by the police days later, still carrying his genitals in her handbag...

Calling all red and lizard, I'm here! In the age of civilization, a mysterious young lady called Beni Kagee appears on the edge of a power struggle filled with pretense. It is also the daring figure of the deified child Mari, who wields a white blade to protect her loved ones and kills because she mourns her loved ones.

Rannosuke Hanayagi, the 17th heir to the Kurokami House, runs a business of vice and cruelty under the guise of a renowned ikebana school across the country. He consumes the girls like cigarettes, tortures them and humiliates them at leisure. Through his links with the economic and political world, which he holds firmly by giving him the benefit of his sexual slaves, Rannosuke is an untouchable sadist prince who reigns over an empire of lust. He is embarking on the education of a new girl, Sayuri, who is to become the new queen of this empire. She becomes the ultimate object of the master's desire

Based on the 300-million Yen Robbery Incident. Ryo Kamon, a man with a mysterious beauty and a past, was spending his free days while staying at a snack managed by his close friend Shuji Nonomura. Detective Iroku Shirado suspects Ryo of being the culprit in the robbery of 300 million yen and continues to nag him... Based on the great Showa era case of 300 million yen robbery.

Alice, a girl who appears in the eyes of those who are drowning in anxiety and lusted, and who reincarnates from their hatred, resentment and despair. She manipulates human dreams at will, revealing visions and getting to the truth behind the heart. The story of a dreamer that traverses the genres of mystery and fantasy, science fiction, and erotism.

Yukie grows up in the countryside in the 1930s as a daughter of a well-off family plagued with dark secrets. Surrounded by people but without any real friends, she tries to come to terms with herself and learn what love is.

What is Lady Snowblood about? Vengeance. Pure and simple, this is a revenge story. Yuki was named as a child of hell by her mother. Yuki's father was killed by a group of men who conspired to use him to start an uprising; they then brutalized her mother. Her mother subsequently killed one of her attackers and ended up in jail, where Yuki is born. Yuki's mother was serving a life sentence; there was no way she could escape and continue her revenge. Consequently, she concocted a plan which included seducing the guards in order to produce a child who could pass beyond the prison walls. Dying in childbirth, Yuki's mother impresses upon a friend the importance of imparting to her infant daughter the necessity of her revenge–the grudge that she could no longer carry, but which she passed to her daughter. The friend agrees to do so, and Yuki ("snow," so named for her snow-white skin) is trained to become the instrument of her mother's vengenace. Twenty years later, Yuki is a skilled assassin. For the price of 1,000 yen she will perform murderous miracles, often proceeding through trickery, deceit, and the assumption that as a woman she poses as little threat to the criminals she is often dispatching.

In Hanakotoba, Kazuo Kamimura depicts women's sexual relationships as if they were flowers.

This is a series of 11 stories written by Aku Yuu with the theme of emotions of women in various situations, such as 'sword girl' of Miki, a girl who falls in love with a yakuza sailor, 'second generation woman' of Natsuko, a tavern landlady who has had a man around her since the third year of junior high school, and 'false woman' of Akari, a prostitute who tells a false story to her customers and buys their sympathy.