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Kazuo Hara
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 deb…
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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.
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2025
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky
Movie man in bar
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2023
Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art
Movie Director
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2021
Minamata Mandala
Movie Producer
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2019
Reiwa Uprising
Movie Director
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2016
Shin Godzilla
Movie Biology Professor
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2016
Sennan Asbestos Disaster
Movie Director
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2013
How Much Is a Life Worth?
Movie Director
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2010
The Duckling
Movie Executive Producer
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2005
The Many Faces of Chika
Movie Director
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2002
A Painful Pair
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2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Movie himself
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1999
My Mishima
Movie Director
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1996
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
Movie Kato
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1995
Deep River
Movie First Assistant Director
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1994
A Dedicated Life
Movie Director
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1990
Shikibu monogatari
Movie Assistant Director
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1989
Death of a Tea Master
Movie Assistant Director
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1987
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Movie Director
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1986
The Sea and Poison
Movie Assistant Director
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1985
Mattemashita tenkousei!
Movie Assistant Director
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1981
Pig-Chicken Suicide
Movie Director of Photography
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1980
Child of the Sun
Movie Assistant Director
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1977
Groper Night Train
Movie Assistant Director
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1975
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin
Movie Director of Photography
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1975
Sex Document: Serial Rapists
Movie Director of Photography
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1974
Wet and Sweet Pussies
Movie Director of Photography
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1974
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Movie Himself
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1972
Goodbye CP
Movie Director
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1960
National Kid
TV show Tomohiro
