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Hiroshi Harada
Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Hiroshi Harada suffered from bullying during his childhood, a frequent theme in his films. His career as an entertainer began in 1976. Between 1987 and 1992 he worked on the adap…
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Hiroshi Harada suffered from bullying during his childhood, a frequent theme in his films. His career as an entertainer began in 1976. Between 1987 and 1992 he worked on the adaptation of Midori: the girl with the camellias, a manga by ero-guro author Suehiro Maruo . Due to the controversy of the film, Harada had trouble financing it and had to do most of the work on his own. Over the years it would become a cult film, as well as being one of the few (if not the only) anime of the ero-guro genre . For the rest of the 90s , Harada remained anonymous using pseudonyms such as Hisaaki Etsu. In 2006 he directed the Humanoid Monster Bem series, the highest-budget play of his career up to that point. In Latin America the series was released by Animax . In 2012 he directed 5 shorts for the anthological series Folktales from Japan which, as its name suggests, adapts popular tales from Japanese culture.
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2025
Zashikiro
Movie Director of Photography
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2020
Water, Water
Movie Thanks
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2020
Horizon Blue
Movie Editor
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2012
Folktales from Japan
TV show Director
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2009
Hanasakeru Seishonen
TV show Storyboard
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2007
Blue Dragon
TV show Storyboard Artist
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2006
Humanoid Monster Bem
TV show Storyboard
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2005
Hiroshi Harada, The One-Man Band
Movie Himself
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2004
The Marshmallow Times
TV show Storyboard
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2003
Lost in Translation
Movie Key Set Production Assistant
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2001
Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
TV show Director
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1994
My Love
Movie Cinematography
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1992
Midori
Movie Executive Producer
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1988
Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West
Movie Key Animation
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1985
The Death Lullaby
Movie Director
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1984
Noozles
TV show Key Animation
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1982
Phantasmagoria Theater
Movie Editor
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1981
Limitless Paradise
Movie Writer
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1981
My Brother Became A Sheep
Movie Cinematography
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1979
Akatsuki's Reward
Movie Director of Photography
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Underground Labyrinth Secret Picture Book: BOO
Movie Director
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Closed Room Coarse Grain Dramatic Art: MAZE
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