[KineJapan] Omori Kazuki

[Gerow Aaron]

The Japanese film director Omori Kazuki died on November 12 at the age of 70. Omori was one of the first directors to emerge from the world of jishu eiga (self produced films), making 8 and 16mm films in school (including Kuraku made matenai, which features Suzuki Seijun), before he made his commercial debut with Orange Road Kyuko in 1979. A graduate of a medical university, Omori's 1980 ATG film Hippocrates-tachi was itself set at a medical university and earned critical accolades. Omori went on to make the first film adaptation of a full length Murakami Haruki novel--one made possible by the fact they both went to the same high school in Kobe--as well as big commercial films such as an entry in the Godzilla series. He later also taught filmmaking at the Osaka University of the Arts. 

https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/culture/202211/0015810160.shtml <https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/culture/202211/0015810160.shtml>

Aaron Gerow
Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
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