Kazuo Hara

Directing·Jun 8, 1945·Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

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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.

Film	Credit
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky2025 · man in bar	man in bar
HHokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art2023 · Director	Director
Minamata Mandala2021 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Reiwa Uprising2019 · Director of Photography, Director, Producer	Director of Photography, Director, Producer
Shin Godzilla2016 · Biology Professor	Biology Professor
Sennan Asbestos Disaster2016 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
How Much Is a Life Worth?2013 · Director	Director
The Many Faces of Chika2005 · Director	Director
A Painful Pair2002 · Actor	Actor
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions2002 · himself	himself
My Mishima1999 · Director	Director
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment1996 · Kato	Kato
A Dedicated Life1994 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On1987 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Pig-Chicken Suicide1981 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin1975 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
SSex Document: Serial Rapists1975 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
WWet and Sweet Pussies1974 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 19741974 · Himself, Writer, Director, Director of Photography	Himself, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Goodbye CP1972 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography