Masato Hara
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.
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
(Director)
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad
(Director)
MI • TA • RI!
(Director)
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
(Director of Photography)
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
(Writer)
A Man Who Became Cinema
(Original Music Composer)
The First Emperor
(Producer)
The First Emperor
(Music)
The First Emperor
(Editor)
The First Emperor
(Sound)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
(Screenplay)
MI • TA • RI!
(Screenplay)
The Eternal Traveller
(Director)
The Eternal Traveller
(Editor)
Futago Rekki
(Music)
Futago Rekki
(Director of Photography)
The Eternal Traveller
(Writer)
Futago Rekki
(Director)
The Eternal Traveller
(Director of Photography)
Futago Rekki
(Editor)
Futago Rekki
(Writer)
MI • TA • RI!
(Director of Photography)
Yakeato Chronicle
(Director)
20th Century Nostalgia
(Director)
Never Ending Summer
(Director)
The First Emperor
(Writer)
The First Emperor
(Cinematography)
20th Century Nostalgia
(Screenplay)
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad
(Writer)
The First Emperor
(Director)
Funeral Parade of Roses
(Assistant Director)