Hideshi Hino

Writing

Hideshi Hino

Born 1946-04-19 · Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China

Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi, born April 19, 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote and directed two of the Guinea Pig horror movies: Flower of Flesh and Blood, which he also starred in, and Mermaid in a Manhole. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hideshi Hino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood poster
4.6

A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood

1985

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood poster
4.6

A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood

1985

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole poster
5.4

An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies.

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole

1988

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole poster
5.4

An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies.

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole

1988

The Ravaged House: Zoroku's Disease poster
NR

In a rural village, there lives a man named Zoroku, with his sister, Haruko. All is well until one day, Zoroku becomes infected with a bizarre disease that blisters his skin and deforms his body. Fearing the reactions of the townspeople, his parents lock him in the house. Unfortunately, the village chief sees him, and soon, Zoroku and Haruko are mistreated by everyone in the village. Unable to watch Haruko suffer any longer, the parents decide to end Zoroku's misery themselves. Haruko tries to save her brother, and they leave home, but what comes afterward?

The Ravaged House: Zoroku's Disease

2004

The Boy from Hell poster
3.9

A mysterious old woman appears before Setsu, who has recently lost her only child in a tragic accident. She says she can bring Setsu's son, Daio back to life. After agreeing to this sinister proposal, Daio returns to his mother, but to Setsu's horror, he is half decomposed and inhuman. To make him human again, he needs fresh human organs. Setsu does everything she can to reincarnate her son, but Daio just turns into a different kind of monster. No one can stop him as he continues to feed his hunger, claiming victim after victim.

The Boy from Hell

2004

Labyrinth of Roses poster
NR

A mockumentary-style horror film about two sisters in Tokyo, where one becomes involved with a mysterious psychic, leading to a descent into paranoia and a confrontation involving a hidden camera.

Labyrinth of Roses

2014

Labyrinth of Roses poster
NR

A mockumentary-style horror film about two sisters in Tokyo, where one becomes involved with a mysterious psychic, leading to a descent into paranoia and a confrontation involving a hidden camera.

Labyrinth of Roses

2014

Dead Girl Walking poster
5.5

Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture.

Dead Girl Walking

2004

Death Train poster
1.0

All set to enjoy their day off, three high school friends, Yukino, Asako, and Natsu, board a seemingly normal train... when suddenly, a deafening sound and a flash of light envelop them!....But the three arrive at school the next day as if nothing happened. And yet, something is not right....They see oddly familiar faces, their families are out of sync and they are chased by strange men in black. Plagued by these nightmarish sensations, Yukino flees, only to find herself in front of the amusement park they were heading to on that fateful train ride. Slumping to the ground, Yukino comes to a strange realization....They are stuck between nightmare and reality, between the walls of two worlds that are closing in on them. But which world is real...?!"

Death Train

2004

Occult Detective Club: The Doll Cemetery poster
6.0

Out of curiosity decides Nanami and Daisuke to join the school's "occult detective club" which is currently examining a curse that has to do with a student who killed herself last year. An old doll found in the back of her closet turns out to be what drove her to suicide. They get to a "cemetery, however," but the "dead" dolls detects intruders and come alive.

Occult Detective Club: The Doll Cemetery

2004

Lizard Baby poster
3.3

Horror screenwriter, Umeki, has writer's block. He goes with his pregnant wife, Akiko, to a check-up and is struck with an incredible idea - a horror story about a woman who gives birth to a reptile! Despite his wife's disgust, Umeki goes ahead with the screenplay, which the critics love. But the horrible prophecy fulfills itself, as his wife gives birth to a freak of nature. His baby is born half human, half lizard! The reptilian baby slithers on the floor, leaving a wet trail of slime behind [it]. To his horror, his wife, Akiko, holds it lovingly in her arms. His movie has become a mirror image of his own life as Umeki slips slowly into madness.

Lizard Baby

2004

Hideshi Hino's Yotsuya Kaidan poster
2.0

Based on Yotsuya Kaidan, a classic japanese ghost story.

Hideshi Hino's Yotsuya Kaidan

2000