The collaboration work between Kazuo Umezz, who was a second year student, and Takeko Mizutani, a girl’s cartoonist living in Kyoto – it is Umezz’s debut work.
Umezz takes in charge of the beginng and the last while Mizutani does the middle part of the story.
The original story is based on the Grimm’s fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”,
The original is “Hansel and Gretel”, the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, but there are many adaptations that remind us of the later master of horror, Umezz.

Another debut novel along with “Siblings in the Forest by Mr. Umezz! A masterpiece of apocalyptic science fiction that depicts the crisis and rebirth of mankind due to an ancient War between different races and a natural cataclysm.

The first masterpiece of girls’ manga by Mr. Umezz. In the background of the legend of Urashima, this fantasy-romance depicts the bond between a mother and a daughter through a spectacular ballet. A long novel compiled with two volumes in rental books.

A collection of works compiled from “Omicchan comes tonight” and “Strange Letter Series” published in the rental short story magazine called “Niji” in 1960.
This is a representative work of girls’ horror manga that became the beginning of the Umezz horror stories as his name started blooming with the work called “Hebi Shoujo” etc.
This work was later depicted in the magazine “Shoujo Friend” and became a masterpiece gaining many regular readers.

A doll picked up by a girl on the street turns out to be a “God of Romance” with the mysterious power to grant three wishes. The story is about how she picks the last wish between her own love to a transfer student and an older woman staying at her house having serious lovesickness.
This is a masterpiece of adolescent romantic comedy and the origin of Umezz gag by leading the enexpected conclusion.

One of the author’s best-known works! Based on the abominable legend of the twins in the Kaga family lord’s household, the cat’s grudge is transformed into a shivering modern horror story.
The story begins with that one of the twin Princesses Yuki, who had cat-eye, was poisoned by her father. The cat scarapture princess Yuki carved at the last was found in the descendant yard, and there are strange accidents start happening to beautifule sisters, Hitomi and Kinomi…
A monumental masterpiece that brought the golden age of Umezz girls’ horror.

Yumiko’s mother will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. She tells Yumiko that there is a rumor of “snake woman” in the Northern ward, who has scales all over on her body, and her mouth does up to both ears. Yumiko gets curious and goes to the ward. What she finds is the woman in a cage, normal looking and somehow alike to her mother.. Then the woman asks Yumiko, “Do you happen to have a frog?”.

Kazuo Umezz’s “Ultraman” was serialized at the same time as the TV broadcast in 1966! Including full-colored battle stories with popular monsters such as the Baltan aliens and the Mephilus aliens. Complete contens, the same as the serialization, in two volumes.

An omnibus series featuring high school journalists.
Emiko and Natsuhiko, members of the newspaper club at Miyako High School, experience a number of fears making them shiver…

A beautiful and adored teacher by female students happens to be replaced with a enshrined mummy during prayer, and the whole school gets caught in the fear…
This comes in two volumes, a medium-length masterpiece of Umezz horror.

A young girl named Yoko finally comes to the biological parents after being separated from her birth and raised in the child care home. She is thrilled to start a new life with her parents in a fancy Western-style home, but unlike the father who dearly welcomes her, her mother calls her by a different name “Tamami” as soon as seeing her…

“Cat-eyed Kid”, who was born as a child of Nekomata only once every 300 years, happens to be abandoned by his family because of his human-like appearance. This is an unique dark hero in Umezz world depicting the life of a boy who is abhorred by both monsters and humans.
A weird man in burnt-out face follows a boy named Takeo from a rich family. The man once approachs Takeo on his way home and offers him a long and thin package saying “Please give this to your father”. When Takeo’s father opens the package, it is a cut-off right arm! The Cat-eyed Boy in the attic is watching a whole story, and then what happens?

The woman in love deceased sadly, and the last word she cried out was “IARA”. This is a story about a man who continues to live through the ages figuring out what the word means…
Once upon a time in the Tenpyo period, Tsuchimaro falls in love with Saname, the daughter of a servant. But Tsuchimaro is assigned for duty in the capital in order to build the Great Buddha. Saname walks to the capital with a single desire, to meet the man. When she runs out of strength and collapses in front of the site, she is saved by Kuninaka Koumaro, the commander of the construction…

Is the instinct deep inside of human heart an unlimited desire…? Or is it true love? Kazuo Umezz at young age approaches the “fear of loving” with his incomparable sensitivity in the “IARA Short Collection” in 3 volumes!

A beautiful girl named Orochi has mysterious power beyond the time. Wherever she goes, she encounters people with sad fates and observes their lives being tossed around by fate…
Orochi stops by a house to shelter from a heavy storm and meets two sisters living by themselves. The older sister, Emi at 17 and the younger sister, Rumi at 16. Strangely, they both are extremely afraid of turning 18. What is the mystery hidden in the a horrifying family history…?

The age of Mototaro Sawada is actually 65. A secret drug called “Again” suddenly makes him into body of a young boy! He enjoys his youth again with his grandson Makoto!

The love and courage of the boys who live in a land isolated from the rest of the world passing time and space and with fighting against the shadow of death! This is a science fiction romance that warns of the end of humanity without a tomorrow!
Story begins with a huge explosion occurred at Yamato Elementary School one morning. There is one enormous deep hole gouged the entire ground, and the whole school building disappears! To where are all the children and teachers gone…?

One day, a man confesses to the lover Hanako that he is actually married. But he also explains that his wife is no longer a human being and takes Hanako to his home.
The house is always dark, and the rooms are never cleaned and cobwebs everywhere. The man says “when I came home from work early without telling her, my wife was having affair with someone. She was upset and changed herself into a spider”…
A masterpiece collection of short stories depicting the “fear” inside of both men and women. 7 stories in total including the title story “House of Insects”!

An actress, Izumi Wakakusa, known as the eternal holy beauty, has been a top star since her childhood. But she struggles with her aging and tries to cover it up in the public. One night Izumi gets depressed and frantic from being afraid of losing her beauty and calls her long-time house doctor to her house. From that night, the “eternal holy beauty” suddenly becomes a woman who desires to have her own child…?

A solo album released by Kazuo Umezz in 1975. This is a collection of works that Umezz wrote the lyrics, composed the music, sang the songs and did the jacket illustrations, all by himself.
Although the song titles are the same as those of his manga, the songs were created as an “image album” from a different angle. The work leaves a deep mark on the hearts of all liseners with his remarkable ability of writing lyrics, which was praised and called “genius” by Kyouhei Tsutsumi and Haruo Chikada. His talent of both composing and singing is also heavenly immaculate.
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Hitoshi is a boy who doesn’t play much with his friends and prefers to be by himself. One day, he finds a piece of wood the size of his head in a garbage and builds his own “robot” out of it. He names the robot “Mokume”, which is creepy looking with many nails hammered for teeth and marked stitches for hair and eyes too outstanding.
Before long, Hitoshi starts wishing Mokume to actually move and puts willpower with cosmic energy to make it happen…
The title story “Wish” and seven other short stories depicted with the fragility and fear of boyhood!

Makoto Sawada is a good and honest kindergartener! But what the idol of the century, Makoto-chan, is encontering is either a smack or a crucifixion! An energetic gag created by Makoto-chan and the Sawada family!

A Warning Bell for the 21st Century! Kazuo Umezz’s masterpiece!
One day, an industrial robot suddenly becomes sentient, which is created by the pure heart of a boy Satoru and a girl Marin!
It hits Satoru’s curiosity when Satoru’s father tells him that “we will have a robot joinging our company”. The next day at school, he talks to his classmates about it, but no one takes such story seriously. At the same time, the robot arrives at the factory of Satoru’s father. The robot is…?

This is the horrible story of the dreams, which a boy named Sou saw and experienced. It can be called the ultimate in splatter with bleeding, vomiting, organs and eyeballs popping out…
A culmination of physiological horror composed of five stories! that can be called the ultimate in splatter.

The “Heisei era version” of Makoto-chan is serialized in “Shonen Sunday” from 1988 as a sequel!
Many super gags performed by Makoto Sawada, a member of the Ume class at Seishu Kindergarten, are a must-see! Unique Umezz wordings stick into your head!

“It ends at fourteen.” The story begins with the mysterious words of a fortune teller. What will happen to the earth? Is there any future for the human species? This is the culmination of Kazuo Umezz’s work giving a warning bell for all living creatures on the earth. People in the future world avoid the polluted atmosphere on the ground, create a comfortable world underground for living. Food is also artificially created and supplied with the benefit of bio-technology. Then, a mutated organism is born from cells, which is supposed to become mere cultured chicken meat in a bio-food factory. The creature grows fast astonishingly and possesses tremendous intelligence. It’s called Chicken George!

Short horror manga of Kazuo Umezz’s early works and no-more available series are re-edited and pubished in Kadokawa Horror Bunko with bonus at the end. 11 volumes.

Kazuo Umezz’s fantastic masterpiece “Album of Darkness” was released in 1975.
After 36 years, the second edition of the album was completed. It contains Rock, Pop, Children’s, Tango, Jazz, Blues…
Most of the songs are written and composed by Kazuo Umezz himself.
This is the album where you can peek inside of Kazuo Umezz’s brain, the version of musician,

This is a debut work of Kazuo Umezz as a film director at the age of 77.
He challenged writing and directing this film by himself based on his autobiographical story, which reveals the secrets of his creation of what have facinated fans of terrifying horror.
An offer comes to Manga artist Kazuo Umezz (acted by Ainosuke Kataoka) from a publishing company for writing a story of his own background. While the editor in charge, Sakura Wakakusa (acted by Mimi Maiwa), interviews Umezz, she learns that there was a great influence on the origin of Umezz unique creation by his deceased mother Ichie (acted by Kimie Shingyoji). Soon, strange phenomena occur one after another around Sakura. The grudge of the passed mother causes unfathomable horror around Umezz and Sakura.

A series of 101 paintings newly presented at the “Kazuo Umezz Grand Art Exhibition”, the first work in 27 years since “FOURTEEN”.
It is a sequel to “I am Shingo” and also a parallel vision (parallel world) beyond time and space.
It is similar to a manga in the sense of the narrative unfolding in chronological order, but unlike a manga, there is no panel layout, and each painting can be enjoyed indivisually. The drama of “manga” and the rich sensibility of “art” are combined into one.
Proof of genius! Manga no teppen kara art no teppen he tobi utsure.