"Come and get scared" - Japanese horror manga exhibition in Sydney

Noriaki Suzuki, Japanese curator from the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library in Japan, has brought original manga pictures to Sydney this summer.

Noriaki Suzuki, the curator for a Japanese horror manga exhibition "Retro Horror" at the Japan Foundation Sydney Source: SBS

RETRO HORROR, an exhibition of Japanese horror manga between 1960s and 1990s, at the Japan Foundation Sydney Source: SBS

The Japan Foundation in Sydney is holding a Japanese horror manga exhibition RETRO HORROR, which features three manga artists active between the 1960s to 1990s.

Noriaki is the curator for this exhibition in Sydney.  In the audio, Noriaki explains to us what horror mangas are and how to categorise them.  He also shares his experiences as a curator for manga exhibitions.

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