Masato Hara

Directing·Jul 15, 1950

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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.

Film	Credit
Yakeato Chronicle2022 · Director	Director
A Man Who Became Cinema2018 · Self	Self
Futago Rekki2018 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here2015 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Tanzan session2012 · Actor	Actor
MI • TA • RI!2002 · Actor, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Actor, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
NNever Ending Summer1997 · Director	Director
20th Century Nostalgia1997 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
TThe Eternal Traveller1995 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The First Emperor1973 · Producer, Writer, Director	Producer, Writer, Director
The Man Who Left His Will on Film1970 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Funeral Parade of Roses1969 · (uncredited)	(uncredited)
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad1968 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer