Kazuo Hara

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-06-08 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Kazuo Hara

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 ...

Production

1972

Goodbye CP

as Director

1999

My Mishima

as Director

1994

A Dedicated Life

as Director

1980

Child of the Sun

as Assistant Director

2010

The Duckling

as Executive Producer

1987

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

as Director of Photography

2021

Minamata Mandala

as Producer

1974

Wet and Sweet Pussies

as Director of Photography

1975

Sex Document: Serial Rapists

as Director of Photography

1985

Mattemashita tenkousei!

as Assistant Director

1989

Death of a Tea Master

as Assistant Director

1995

Deep River

as Assistant Director

1990

Shikibu monogatari

as Assistant Director

1986

The Sea and Poison

as Assistant Director

1972

Goodbye CP

as Director of Photography

2016

Sennan Asbestos Disaster

as Director of Photography

1994

A Dedicated Life

as Director of Photography

1974

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

as Director of Photography

1981

Pig-Chicken Suicide

as Director of Photography

2019

Reiwa Uprising

as Director

2019

Reiwa Uprising

as Director of Photography

1975

Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin

as Director of Photography

2019

Reiwa Uprising

as Producer

2021

Minamata Mandala

as Director

2019

Reiwa Uprising

as Cinematography

1977

Groper Night Train

as Assistant Director

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