Masato Hara

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Masato Hara

Directing 76 July 15, 1950

While still in secondary school, Hara Masato (1950) won several prizes with his 16mm film A Sad Yet Funny Ballad. In 1970, he wrote the script for Oshima Nagasi's film The Man Who…

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While still in secondary school, Hara Masato (1950) won several prizes with his 16mm film A Sad Yet Funny Ballad. In 1970, he wrote the script for Oshima Nagasi's film The Man Who Left His Will on Film. In 1973, he completed The First Emperor, a film on which he worked for three years. The film was selected by the magazine Kinema Jumpo as one of the most important films in Japanese film history. From the 1980s on, Hara focused increasingly on television documentaries. In his work, he makes use of various media, mainly animation and laser disk images and he often combines the screening of his films with live performances.

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  1. 2022
    Yakeato Chronicle

    Movie Director

  2. 2018
    A Man Who Became Cinema

    Movie Self

  3. 2018
    Futago Rekki

    Movie Director of Photography

  4. 2015
    SOAR: I Wish You Were Here

    Movie Director

  5. 2012
  6. 2002
  7. 1997
    Never Ending Summer

    Movie Director

  8. 1997
    20th Century Nostalgia

    Movie Director

  9. 1995
    The Eternal Traveller

    Movie Director

  10. 1973
    The First Emperor

    Movie Music

  11. 1970
    The Man Who Left His Will on Film

    Movie Screenplay

  12. 1970
  13. 1969
    Funeral Parade of Roses

    Movie (uncredited)

  14. 1968
    A Sad Yet Funny Ballad

    Movie Director