Masato Hara
While still in secondary school, Hara Masato (1950) won several prizes with his 16mm film A Sad Yet Funny Ballad. In 1970, he wrote the script for Oshima Nagasi's film The Man Who Left His Will on Film. In 1973, he completed The First Emperor, a film on which he worked for three years. The film was selected by the magazine Kinema Jumpo as one of the most important films in Japanese film history. From the 1980s on, Hara focused increasingly on television documentaries. In his work, he makes use of various media, mainly animation and laser disk images and he often combines the screening of his films with live performances.
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Movies (14)

Yakeato Chronicle
2022 · Director

A Man Who Became Cinema
2018 · Self, Original Music Composer

Futago Rekki
2018 · Music, Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Writer

SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer

Tanzan session
2012

MI • TA • RI!
2002 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Never Ending Summer
1997 · Director

20th Century Nostalgia
1997 · Director, Screenplay
The Eternal Traveller
1995 · Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography

The First Emperor
1973 · Producer, Music, Editor, Sound, Writer, Cinematography, Director

The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1970 · Screenplay
自己表出史「早川義夫」編
1970 · Director

Funeral Parade of Roses
1969 · (uncredited), Assistant Director

A Sad Yet Funny Ballad
1968 · Director, Writer
TV shows (0)
No credits available.
