
Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
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Biography
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.
Known For

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

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

A man who was once divorced due to a lack of sex remarried, but now has a much older wife. To avoid another sexless marriage after his previous mistake, the couple try out various cosplays and creative situations, enjoying their married life to avoid any sense of staleness. However, the couple's sexual exploration begins to get out of control, and before long it develops into a big commotion that involves everyone around them...
The Real Secret Married Life
Pink film distributed by Xces.
Honban jitsugi: Sakechau

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

Terror ! Wounds that led to death. The dead feel no pain. Pain! Heat! Agony! Corpses evoking the moment of death. I don't want to die like this... Why must death be so cruel... It's as if you can hear the corpses' lament... Can you endure these images reeking of death ?!
Death Farm

Japanese death photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka is back, with his own unique vision of our planet. The Wasteland is a look into the aftermath of war, religion, and other evil facets that aid in the destruction of Earth.
The Wasteland
An unsettling journey into the darkest corners of human desire. EROS & ARTHANATOS, directed by Domiziano Cristopharo and Cristo Gil Diaz, is an unfiltered documentary exploring the taboo world of necrophilia. Through historical accounts, psychological insights, and cinematic representations, the film dissects the intersection of love, death, and obsession. Blending expert interviews, archival footage, and artistic interpretations, EROS & ARTHANATOS challenges conventional morality, delving into the disturbing yet fascinating realm where eroticism and mortality collide.
Eros & ARThanatos

Hikari, a prostitute, arrives at the designated location requested by a client. There, a man wearing a gas mask and holding a rope is waiting for her...
The Hunting

Japanese shockumentary showcasing the aftermaths of multiple vehicular accidents as well as murders.
RARE: A Dead Person

What's displayed on the screen isn't a movie or a drama—it's undeniably real. You must not avert your eyes from the fact that just minutes ago, a human being who laughed and cried has now become nothing but a mass of blood and flesh.
RARE: A Dead Person More Deep

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 arguably more disturbing nature.
Death Farm Vol. 1

What you see on screen is not a movie or a drama, but undeniable fact. You must not avert your eyes from the reality that mere minutes ago, a human being who laughed and cried has now become nothing but a mass of blood and flesh.
RARE: A Dead Person 2

A married woman who is a "revenge contractor" who takes revenge on men on behalf of women who have been wronged by her ends up being embraced by the man she is targeting...