Kazuo Hara

Known for DirectingBorn 1945-06-08 (age 81)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

The Many Faces of Chika

My Mishima

Goodbye CP

Shin Godzilla

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

Deep River

National Kid

The Sea and Poison

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

Pig-Chicken Suicide

A Dedicated Life

A Painful Pair

Death of a Tea Master

Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin

The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

Shikibu monogatari

Groper Night Train

Sex Document: Serial Rapists

Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art

Minamata Mandala

Reiwa Uprising

Sennan Asbestos Disaster

How Much Is a Life Worth?

The Duckling

Mattemashita tenkousei!

Child of the Sun

Wet and Sweet Pussies