Directing
Masato Hara
JA cinema · 14 credits
Born
15 July 1950 (age 76)
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.
Known for
Filmography
A Man Who Became Cinema
as Self, Original Music Composer
Futago Rekki
Director of Photography, Music, Writer, Editor, Director
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
MI • TA • RI!
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
20th Century Nostalgia
Director, Screenplay
百代の過客
1995
The Eternal Traveller
Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
The First Emperor
Music, Sound, Editor, Producer, Cinematography, Writer, Director
Funeral Parade of Roses
as (uncredited), Assistant Director
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad
Director, Writer