Directing
Kazuo Hara
JA, EN cinema · 28 credits
Born
8 June 1945 (age 81)
Birthplace
Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
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.
Known for
Filmography
Minamata Mandala
Producer, Director
Reiwa Uprising
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Cinematography
Shin Godzilla
as Biology Professor
Sennan Asbestos Disaster
Director, Director of Photography
The Duckling
Executive Producer
My Mishima
Director
Deep River
First Assistant Director
A Dedicated Life
Director, Director of Photography
Shikibu monogatari
Assistant Director
Death of a Tea Master
Assistant Director
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Director, Director of Photography
The Sea and Poison
Assistant Director
Mattemashita tenkousei!
Assistant Director
Pig-Chicken Suicide
Director of Photography
Child of the Sun
Assistant Director
痴漢夜行列車
1977
Groper Night Train
Assistant Director
セックスドキュメント 連続婦女暴行魔
1975
Sex Document: Serial Rapists
Director of Photography
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin
Director of Photography
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
as Himself, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
横浜シャイアン 女の湿地帯
1974
Wet and Sweet Pussies
Director of Photography
Goodbye CP
Director, Director of Photography