Kaoru Abe

Biography

Kaoru Abe (阿部薫, Abe Kaoru) was an influential Japanese avant-garde alto saxophonist. Self-taught at a young age, Abe performed with notables such as Motoharu Yoshizawa, Takehisa Kosugi, Yosuke Yamashita, Derek Bailey, and Milford Graves,[1] although he generally performed solo. He was married to the author Izumi Suzuki, and a cousin to singer Kyu Sakamoto. He was portrayed in Kōji Wakamatsu's fil...

Personal Details

Birthday: May 5, 1949

Passed: September 9, 1978

Place of Birth: Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As: 阿部薫

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A struggling jazz saxophonist and a dancer at a rundown strip club are a couple. Though they love each other, they are unable to give up on their glamorous dreams and live their days at rock bottom. One day, the man cheats on her with a woman he picks up, and the next morning, she steals his precious saxophone. Wanting to buy the exhausted man a new saxophone, the dancer decides to sell her body to her devoted fan...

Writhing and Wet

1981

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A chubby, bicycle-riding rapist/killer dispatches 13 people in a cold, bloody, detached rampage.

Serial Rapist

1978

5.3

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