Hideshi Hino
Hideshi Hino ( Japanese 日 野 日出 志 Hino Hideshi ; born April 19, 1946 in Qiqihar ) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror . As a screenwriter and director, he is also a representative of the horror genre .
biography
He was born in Manchuria , which was then part of the Japanese colony in China. After the Japanese withdrew from China during the Second Sino-Japanese War , his father supervised the escape of the Japanese as an employee of the Manchurian railway company. The family also fled China shortly after his birth. Hino almost died on the crossing. The father became a craftsman in rural Itabashi , making objects out of copper and tin.
As a teenager he was fascinated by the Edo period . From then on, Hino wanted to become a director and make films about this time. Jidai-geki films, especially Musaki Kobayashi's Seppuku , have reinforced this desire.
Influenced by Shigeru Sugiura , Sasuke Sarutobi and Chibimaru Doron and later by Yoshiharu Tsuge and Sanpei Shirato , but also by writers ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Lev Tolstoy , Ray Bradbury , Ryunosuke Akutagawa ) and the film Frankenstein from 1931, Hino began to write mangas to draw. He published his first comic in 1967, at the age of 21, with the short story Tsumetai ase ( つ め た い 汗 ) in Osamu Tezuka's manga magazine COM , which was to serve as a platform for young artists and for experimental manga. This first work was about a tea house in the Edo period. This was followed in 1968 by the short comic Doro Ningyō ( ど ろ 人形 ) for the avant-garde Garo magazine about a world marked by pollution, in which children are born exclusively with deformities.
In the commercial mainstream, he published his works from 1970 when his comic Zoroku no Kibyō ( 蔵 六 の 奇 病 ) about a man with a serious illness that gradually destroys his body, came out in the magazine Shōnen Gahō . He created several manga series, for example for Shōnen Sunday , one of the manga magazines with the highest circulation.
From the beginning of the 1980s, as in his early career for Garo , Hino concentrated more on short stories and less on series, because the horror genre lost its importance in the commercial Shōnen magazines.
In the mid-1980s, his manga Jigokuhe ( 地獄 変 ) appeared. This story about the “painter who paints hell” contains autobiographical details: his father had a spider tattoo on his back, his grandfather was a yakuza and organized illegal games. After Jigokuhe was released , Hino wanted to stop drawing comics. After suffering from an illness for three years, he resumed drawing and published the manga Red Snake ( 赤 い 蛇 , Akai hebi ). This takes place in a house in the middle of a forest. There is no way out, and a mysterious mirror blocks half of the house. When the mirror cracks, something evil is released.
Hino made two real films as a director. The first appeared in 1985 under the title Ginī piggu 2: Chiniku no hana as the second part of the Guinea Pig film series . The film, whose screenplay is also by Hino, is about a man who disguises himself as a samurai, drugs and dismembered a woman while filming himself. The film was indexed and sparked a scandal. In 1988 the second directorial work followed, Za ginī piggu: Manhōru no naka no ningyo .
His comics have been translated into English, German, French and Spanish.
Awards
For Bug Boy ( 毒虫 小僧 Dokumushi kozō ) Hino was awarded the International Horror Guild Award in 2004. Jigokuhe was nominated as “ best album ” in 2005 at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême .
style
Hino often depicts a human being transformed into a monster. He likes to tell a story from the perspective of a child, whereby the innocent look at the cruel environment makes the horror experience all the more intense. Blood baths and deformations intensify the depicted horror.
His drawing style is characterized by large eyes that show many veins towards the edge, small mouths and disturbed proportions. He draws strong black and white contrasts, likes to use swabs, wipers and drops of ink.
Web links
- Website of the German publisher Schreiber & Leser zu Hino
- Excerpt from an interview with The Comics Journal ( Memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English, archive version)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hino, Hideshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 日 野 日出 志 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Qiqihar |