Kazuo Kamimura

Kazuo Kamimura (上村 一夫, Kamimura Kazuo^?, March 7, 1940 in Yokosuka – January 11, 1986) was a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of Lady Snowblood, which was adapted into film as Lady Snowblood in 1973. Hitoshi Iwaaki, a manga artist was his assistant.

Kamimura died at age 45 of a pharynx tumor.

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