Kazuo Hara
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.
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Filme (29)
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky
2025 · man in bar
Shin Godzilla: ORTHOchromatic
2023 · Biology Professor
Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art
2023 · Director
Minamata Mandala
2021 · Producer, Director
Reiwa Uprising
2019 · Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Cinematography
Shin Godzilla
2016 · Biology Professor
Sennan Asbestos Disaster
2016 · Director, Director of Photography
How Much Is a Life Worth?
2013 · Director
The Duckling
2010 · Executive Producer
The Many Faces of Chika
2005 · Director
A Painful Pair
2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002 · himself
My Mishima
1999 · Director
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
1996 · Kato
Deep River
1995 · First Assistant Director
A Dedicated Life
1994 · Director, Director of Photography
Shikibu monogatari
1990 · Assistant Director
Death of a Tea Master
1989 · Assistant Director
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
1987 · Director, Director of Photography
The Sea and Poison
1986 · Assistant Director
Mattemashita tenkousei!
1985 · Assistant Director
Pig-Chicken Suicide
1981 · Director of Photography
Child of the Sun
1980 · Assistant Director
Groper Night Train
1977 · Assistant Director
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin
1975 · Director of Photography
Sex Document: Serial Rapists
1975 · Director of Photography
Wet and Sweet Pussies
1974 · Director of Photography
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
1974 · Himself, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Goodbye CP
1972 · Director, Director of Photography
