Kazuo Hara
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 | Directing |
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Most Rating | 0.875 |
Birthday | 1945-06-08 |
Place of Birth | Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan |
Also Known As |
1996
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
6/7
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, w...
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Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
2016
Shin Godzilla
7.2/1326
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of vol...
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Shin Godzilla
1974
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
7.4/10
When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw, intensely...
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Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
0/0
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years...
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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
A Painful Pair
6/1
Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be se...
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