Kazuo Hara

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1945-06-08 (79 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 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

Director

2021
Minamata Mandala

as Director

2019
Reiwa Uprising

as Director

2016
2005
1999
My Mishima

as Director

1995
Deep River

as Assistant Director

1994
A Dedicated Life

as Director

1990
Shikibu monogatari

as Assistant Director

1989
Death of a Tea Master

as Assistant Director

1986
The Sea and Poison

as Assistant Director

1985
Mattemashita tenkousei!

as Assistant Director

1980
Child of the Sun

as Assistant Director

1977
Groper Night Train

as Assistant Director

1972
Goodbye CP

as Director

Camera

2019
Reiwa Uprising

as Director of Photography

2016
Sennan Asbestos Disaster

as Director of Photography

1994
A Dedicated Life

as Director of Photography

1987
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

as Director of Photography

1981
Pig-Chicken Suicide

as Director of Photography

1975
Sex Document: Serial Rapists

as Director of Photography

1975
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin

as Director of Photography

1974
Wet and Sweet Pussies

as Director of Photography

1974
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

as Director of Photography

1972
Goodbye CP

as Director of Photography

Producer

2021
Minamata Mandala

as Producer

2019
Reiwa Uprising

as Producer

2010
The Duckling

as Executive Producer

Crew

2019
Reiwa Uprising

as Cinematography