Kazuo Hara
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.
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
(Director)
Goodbye CP
(Director)
My Mishima
(Director)
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
(Writer)
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
(Director)
The Many Faces of Chika
(Director)
A Dedicated Life
(Director)
Child of the Sun
(Assistant Director)
The Duckling
(Executive Producer)
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
(Director of Photography)
Minamata Mandala
(Producer)
Wet and Sweet Pussies
(Director of Photography)
Sex Document: Serial Rapists
(Director of Photography)
Mattemashita tenkousei!
(Assistant Director)
The Sea and Poison
(Assistant Director)
Deep River
(Assistant Director)
Shikibu monogatari
(Assistant Director)
Death of a Tea Master
(Assistant Director)
Sennan Asbestos Disaster
(Director)
Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art
(Director)
Goodbye CP
(Director of Photography)
Sennan Asbestos Disaster
(Director of Photography)
A Dedicated Life
(Director of Photography)
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
(Director of Photography)
Pig-Chicken Suicide
(Director of Photography)
Reiwa Uprising
(Director of Photography)
Reiwa Uprising
(Director)
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin
(Director of Photography)
Reiwa Uprising
(Producer)
Minamata Mandala
(Director)
Reiwa Uprising
(Cinematography)
How Much Is a Life Worth?
(Director)
Groper Night Train
(Assistant Director)