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I always try to avoid rash conclusions and doom. You say they "censored" the movie, but the movie description states:

"Based on a Suehiro Maruo manga, Midori was banned pretty much everywhere for years and the experience seemed to have put the director (also the animator) off so much, he moved from film to video games. A shame for movie fans because of the artistry on display here, even if some of the stills were replications from the manga."

I know nothing else about it, but this clearly seems to indicate the movie was banned for plagiarism and/or copyright infringement first and foremost.

Typically, if an author disappears, you never hear the reason. But don't assume it's always censorship. Just from the top of my head, one artist I knew was jailed for unrelated crimes, another lost family member(s) in an accident and didn't feel like drawing guro anymore, yet another got a job at a professional studio and wanted to avoid trouble. One got doxxed, I believe.

The payment issues are real, but not unique to guro. And not permanent, people will solve this, they always do.