1. Yoshihiro Nishimura is a Japanese film director, special effects and makeup effects artist, and a screenwriter who has worked predominantly in the horror genre.
14 Facts About Yoshihiro Nishimura
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Yoshihiro Nishimura, born on April 1,1967, had been interested in film from childhood but a major influence on his career was a painting by Salvador Dali with distorted human bodies that he saw when in elementary school.
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Yoshihiro 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.
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Yoshihiro Nishimura started making films while in junior high school by teaching himself about filming, lighting, special effects and modeling.
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Yoshihiro Nishimura wrote the screenplay, directed, and did the special effects.
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For several years, Yoshihiro Nishimura did special effects and special makeup effects for a number of movies including the controversial thriller from Sion Sono, Suicide Club, and Noboru Iguchi's 2003 comedy-romance-horror A Larva to Love.
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Yoshihiro 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.
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Yoshihiro Nishimura 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.
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Yoshihiro Nishimura co-wrote the screenplay, directed the movie, did the special make-up effects and modeling, and had a small cameo role as well.
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Yoshihiro 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.
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Yoshihiro Nishimura started his own effects company based in Tokyo, Yoshihiro Nishimura Eizo Co.
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In 2011, Yoshihiro Nishimura directed the "Killer" music video for Osaka rock band The 50 Kaitenz.
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Yoshihiro Nishimura directed the music video for Ena Fujita's June 2018 single "Ienai Koto wa Uta no Naka".
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Yoshihiro Nishimura then expanded the music video into the October 2019 feature film Welcome to Japan: Hinomaru Lunch Box, which Fujita stars in.