Kazuo Hara

Kazuo Hara

  • Birthday: 1945-06-08
  • Place of birth: Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
  • Also know as: 原一男

Biography

Kazuo Hara (原一男 Hara Kazuo, born 8 June 1945) is a Japanese documentary film director. After dropping out of university to work at a special education school, he made his 1972 debut work Goodbye CP about a group of individuals with cerebral palsy. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Hochi Film Award and at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. That film also earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. In 2017 he released the documentary Sennan Asbestos Disaster which received the 2017 Audience Award at the Tokyo Filmex International Film Festival and the 2017 BIFF Mecenat Award at the Busan International Film Festival. His documentary works often depict people who push against the boundaries of propriety and obedience in Japanese society.

Filmography

Production

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

1987

As Director of Photography

Sex Document: Serial Rapists

1975

As Director of Photography

Wet and Sweet Pussies

1974

As Director of Photography

Goodbye CP

1972

As Director of Photography

Sennan Asbestos Disaster

2016

As Director of Photography

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

1974

As Director of Photography

A Dedicated Life

1994

As Director of Photography

Pig-Chicken Suicide

1981

As Director of Photography

Reiwa Uprising

2019

As Director of Photography

Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin

1975

As Director of Photography

Reiwa Uprising

2019

As Cinematography

Goodbye CP

1972

As Director

A Dedicated Life

1994

As Director

The Many Faces of Chika

2005

As Director

Sennan Asbestos Disaster

2016

As Director

Reiwa Uprising

2019

As Director

Minamata Mandala

2021

As Director

My Mishima

1999

As Director

Child of the Sun

1980

As Assistant Director

Mattemashita tenkousei!

1985

As Assistant Director

Deep River

1995

As Assistant Director

Shikibu monogatari

1990

As Assistant Director

Death of a Tea Master

1989

As Assistant Director

The Sea and Poison

1986

As Assistant Director

Reiwa Uprising

2019

As Producer

The Duckling

2010

As Executive Producer

Minamata Mandala

2021

As Producer

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