Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

出生 : 1966-12-20, Toyama Prefecture, Japan

略歴

Kiyotaka Tsurisaki is a Japanese photographer who specializes in photographing dead bodies. After graduation from Keio University, He worked as an adult video director and became a dead body photographer in 1994. He has taken pictures in Thailand, Colombia, Russia, Palestine and elsewhere.

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Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

参加作品

The Wasteland
Director
The latest shockumentary from renowned death photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka.
Junk Films
Director of Photography
A controversial still photographer specializing in grim death portraits translates his morbid sensibilities to the moving picture to offer an affecting look at death from an entirely unique perspective. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka specializes in the kind of photography that most folks would shrink away from. Over the course of his career, Kiyotaka has photographed more than 1000 deaths, a focus that often finds him facing legal problems in his home country of Japan. In this collection of short films, the photographer shifts his focus to the subject of war to offer a startling and sobering look at the aftermath of combat. Additional images of starvation, disasters, and tragic accidents highlight the fragility of human life and the grotesqueness of death's many forms.
Junk Films
Director
A controversial still photographer specializing in grim death portraits translates his morbid sensibilities to the moving picture to offer an affecting look at death from an entirely unique perspective. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka specializes in the kind of photography that most folks would shrink away from. Over the course of his career, Kiyotaka has photographed more than 1000 deaths, a focus that often finds him facing legal problems in his home country of Japan. In this collection of short films, the photographer shifts his focus to the subject of war to offer a startling and sobering look at the aftermath of combat. Additional images of starvation, disasters, and tragic accidents highlight the fragility of human life and the grotesqueness of death's many forms.
Orozco the Embalmer
Screenplay
In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder rampant, the corpses eventually find their way to embalmer Froilan Orozco, who has been tending the dead for over 50 years. We watch as bodies are brought in to his shop and he prepares them for their funerals.
Orozco the Embalmer
Editor
In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder rampant, the corpses eventually find their way to embalmer Froilan Orozco, who has been tending the dead for over 50 years. We watch as bodies are brought in to his shop and he prepares them for their funerals.
Orozco the Embalmer
Director
In 1996, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, one of Japan’s most infamous death photographers, ventured into the center of Hell itself - the Rue Morgue neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia. With death and murder rampant, the corpses eventually find their way to embalmer Froilan Orozco, who has been tending the dead for over 50 years. We watch as bodies are brought in to his shop and he prepares them for their funerals.
RARE ーレアー 人間であったはずの肉塊 総集編①
Director
Japanese shockumentary showcasing the aftermaths of multiple vehicular accidents as well as murders.
Paranoid Garden
Director
In Japan, during the waning days of WWII, recent widow Noriko clings to her husband’s family after he is killed in battle. But that familial love is quickly replaced by more forbidden urges, and the bonds between them turn physical. Yet there is another secret hidden in this home, one that in a time of war could bring great shame and place all of their lives in peril. A taboo tale that questions notions of love, loyalty and death..
Paranoid Garden
Director
In Japan, during the waning days of WWII, recent widow Noriko clings to her husband’s family after he is killed in battle. But that familial love is quickly replaced by more forbidden urges, and the bonds between them turn physical. Yet there is another secret hidden in this home, one that in a time of war could bring great shame and place all of their lives in peril. A taboo tale that questions notions of love, loyalty and death.
RARE ーレアー 人間であったはずの肉塊 総集編②
Director
A documentary detailing various death scenes.
DEATH FARM デス・ファーム 総集編
Director
Japanese shockumentary detailing the aftermath of horrific accidents and murders. This is similar in style and format to Kiyotaka's former RARE trilogy, but it contains more content of an arguably more disturbing nature.
RARE ーレアー 人間であったはずの肉塊 MORE DEEP
Director
Japanese shockumentary showcasing the aftermaths of multiple vehicular accidents as well as murders. This is the third and final installment in the RARE trilogy, mostly being comprised of shorter clips that did not make the final cut for the first two films