"Guinea Pig is a Japanese horror video series that consists of six films and one making-of documentary. The series is notorious for its extreme hyper-realistic gore, as well as extended scenes of torture, mutilation, and murder. The 2nd video in the series, 'Flower Of Flesh And Blood', influenced Tsutomu Miyazaki, a necropedophile and cannibal who kidnapped, killed, dismembered, then raped and consumed four girls aged 4 to 7. 'Flower Of Flesh And Blood' also achieved notoriety in the United States, first via bootlegs from horror journalist Charles Balun, and then from actor Charlie Sheen, who saw the video at a party and believed it was an actual snuff film, prompting him to report it directly to the F.B.I."
"Hideshi Hino (Born April 19th 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in gruesome horror stories. He originally began in doujinshi [Homebrew comics. --S], with his first professional work published in 1967 (in Osamu Tezuka's experimental 'Komu' magazine). From 1968 onward he published in the underground 'Garo' magazine. By 1971 his bizarre world of deviant killers, grotesque beasts, and decaying corpses was firmly established. His works include 'Panorama Of Hell', 'Hell Baby', and 'Gallery Of Horrors' amongst many others. He also wrote and directed the two most infamous entries in the 'Guinea Pig' video series, 'Flower Of Flesh And Blood' and 'Mermaid In A Manhole'."
