 Kazu Hiro grew up in Kyoto, where he spent much of his time alone engaging in art projects.Kazu Hiro came across an issue of "Fangoria" which featured Dick Smith and his work turning Hal Holbrook into Abraham Lincoln for the 1976 miniseries "Lincoln".This led to Kazu Hiro's own experiments with special make-up effects, photos of which he began sending to Dick Smith after discovering his P.O.