Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

Orozco the Embalmer

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.

Paranoid Garden

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.

Death Farm

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 ?!

The Wasteland

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.

RARE: A Dead Person

Japanese shockumentary showcasing the aftermaths of multiple vehicular accidents as well as murders.

RARE: A Dead Person 2

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.

Kyonyû Jukujo: Honban Jikomi

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...

Junk Films

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.