He is a stalker who has raped Midori several times. Although he has no arms, he is able to use his feet just as if they were hands, performing archery in the circus. Tokkuriji Muchisute the Mummy Man: The first circus performer – the disfigured pervert with missing arms and a face covered in bandages like a mummy he is one of Japan's victims of leprosy (though he's a burn victim in the other adaptations).He has no qualms of sleeping with little boys, and he has a fetish of eyeball licking/ oculolinctus. He'll do anything to get rich, even going so far as taking Midori hostage for his show. While he appears to be a benevolent and consistent manager, he is actually a greedy and manipulative conman.

Arashi: The boss of the Amazing Freak Show and the seedy stranger who led Midori into his horrific circus. Her death is horrific as she's eaten by rats and mice. Midori's Father and Mother: Midori's father mysteriously ran away and left his family alone, and Midori's mother was bedridden due to an illness.What awaits her will change her life, and her, forever. The orphaned Midori then meets a stranger who leads her towards the circus. Midori is forced to drop out of school and sell flowers in the city. However, everything changed after her father left and her mother died. Hanamura Midori the Camellia Girl: An innocent 12-year-old girl with a bob haircut who enjoyed her life as a student to the fullest.Set in early 20th century Japan in a circus involving freaks such as 'Hohichi the Human Pretzel' and 'the Human Worm', one member (who is a little girl) has highlighted the misdeeds that occur during these events of the circus camps in her dark and twisted tale. Maruo's manga (as well as its film adaptations) follows the dark misadventures behind the colorful curtains and extravagant performances of the local funfair freak show, hidden away from the audience's smiles and praises. ( October 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this section if you can. The specific problem is: Typos and poor writing.

This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. A live-action film adaptation of the manga was released in Japan in May 2016. Harada's film is also infamous in itself and for the elaborate expanded cinema presentations it was originally only shown in, though it has been allowed to screen in conventional movie theaters and even released on home video outside of Japan. The graphic novel is considered a classic of Maruo's 1920s-inspired brand of ero guro and its out-of-print English edition has become much sought-after. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show), and Hiroshi Harada's semi-animated film based on Maruo's version, screened at film festivals and released on DVD-Video with English subtitles as Midori. The character is known to western and contemporary Japanese audiences predominantly by way of Suehiro Maruo's ero guro reinterpretation in comics, first in a short story as part of an anthology and then in a full-length graphic novel of the same name (published in English as Mr. Generally speaking, the character is a stereotypical adolescent or preadolescent ingénue, a daughter of a penniless family who goes from selling camellias on the streets to being sold or forced to perform in a revue show. The character and her story is traditionally attributed to a creator known as Seiun, though the plagiarism and retelling in sundry variants that was the norm for popular-proving tales make its true origin uncertain.

Shōjo Tsubaki ( 少女椿, 'The Camellia Girl') is a stock protagonist of kamishibai during its revival in early Shōwa period Japan.

Sabaki no koumyoji