Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

Directing

Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

Born

1966-12-20 (59)

Place of birth

Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

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

Orozco the Embalmer poster
6.4

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

2001

RARE: A Dead Person poster
1.0

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

RARE: A Dead Person

1997

Death Farm poster
NR

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

1995

The Wasteland poster
NR

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

2014

No artwork available
NR

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

2025

Paranoid Garden poster
9.0

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

1994

Film credits

Behind the camera

Orozco the Embalmer poster
6.4

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

2001

Orozco the Embalmer poster
6.4

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

2001

RARE: A Dead Person poster
1.0

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

RARE: A Dead Person

1997

Death Farm poster
NR

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

1995

The Wasteland poster
NR

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

2014

Paranoid Garden poster
9.0

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

1994

Paranoid Garden poster
9.0

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

1994

RARE: A Dead Person 2 poster
5.7

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

1998

Junk Films poster
1.2

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

2007

RARE: A Dead Person More Deep poster
NR

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

1997

Death Farm Vol. 1 poster
NR

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

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The Hunting poster
NR

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

1994