As Bruce Osborn\u2019s professional and personal partner, she has produced numerous exhibitions and events.<\/span><\/h6>\n
\nIntroducing Mr. Gomi<\/h4>\n
Seki:<\/b> Hello. Today we\u2019ve invited a rather frightening guest: haunted house producer Hirofumi Gomi. Mr. Gomi has very close ties with Bruce; every year Bruce photographs the haunted house at Korakuen that Mr. Gomi produces. To begin, I\u2019d like to ask how you first met Bruce.<\/p>\nMeeting Bruce and Yoshiko<\/h4>\n
Gomi:<\/b> I started working on Korakuen\u2019s haunted houses in 1992, and asked the butoh dancer Maro Akaji to direct one. That \u201cMaro Akaji\u2019s Panorama House of Horrors\u201d became a huge hit, and they asked me back the following year. The promotional art for Maro\u2019s production was by the artist Suehiro Maruo, and Bruce had been photographing Maruo.<\/p>\n
Bruce:<\/b> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
Gomi:<\/b> Because of that connection, the producer of Dairakudakan said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you ask Bruce?\u201d That was how we first met.<\/p>\n
Seki:<\/b> That was when you were active in the underground scene, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Gomi:<\/b> It was around the time of \u201cTokyo GaGaGa,\u201d after all.<\/p>\n
Yoshiko:<\/b> Was Kazuo Umezu later than that?<\/p>\n
Gomi:<\/b> No, it was then. We asked Mr. Umezu to do the haunted house the following year, so Bruce photographed him as well.<\/p>\n