Kazuo Hara
Know for: Directing
Born: 1945-06-08
Place of birth: Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
Also know as:
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived,...
Shin Godzilla (2016)
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of...
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)
When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw,...
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002)
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...
A Painful Pair (2002)
Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be...
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old veteran of the New Guinea campaign in World War II, sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives to find...
Goodbye CP (1972)
Kazuo Hara follows the lives and activities of Yokota Hiroshi and Yokozuka Koichi, members of an activist group made up of people with cerebral palsy.
My Mishima (1999)
A documentary following the lives of people in Mishima, a small island off the coast of Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)
When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw,...
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)
When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw,...
The Many Faces of Chika (2005)
When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in...
A Dedicated Life (1994)
A profile of the controversial novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, filmed during the last years of his life.
Child of the Sun (1980)
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm...
The Duckling (2010)
Sayaka ONO created a painful and deeply moving portrayal of her own vulnerable soul, based on the tense relationship with her parents. Left alone for...
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old veteran of the New Guinea campaign in World War II, sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives to find...
Minamata Mandala (2021)
After years of dumping industrial wastes from the factory to the ocean, Chisso Chemical Corporation contaminated the area of a small Japanese fishing...
Wet and Sweet Pussies (1974)
Rogue and vagabond Gonbee pretends himself as a boss of Yokohama-city. He has his follower Senkichi perform, and tries to make the skin flick. One...
Sex Document: Serial Rapists (1975)
Pinku from 1975.
Mattemashita tenkousei! (1985)
The son of wandering actors, also a budding actor, little Akira is forced to change school often and, after having attended thirty-two different...
Death of a Tea Master (1989)
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
Deep River (1995)
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
Shikibu monogatari (1990)
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near...
The Sea and Poison (1986)
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American...
Sennan Asbestos Disaster (2016)
This film is about a lawsuit seeking state compensation for asbestos-related damage in the Sennan area of Osaka. Filmmaker Hara Kazuo records the...
Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art (2023)
In 2018 Japan’s NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art’s collection of works by Katsushika...
Goodbye CP (1972)
Kazuo Hara follows the lives and activities of Yokota Hiroshi and Yokozuka Koichi, members of an activist group made up of people with cerebral palsy.
Sennan Asbestos Disaster (2016)
This film is about a lawsuit seeking state compensation for asbestos-related damage in the Sennan area of Osaka. Filmmaker Hara Kazuo records the...
A Dedicated Life (1994)
A profile of the controversial novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, filmed during the last years of his life.
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)
When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw,...
Pig-Chicken Suicide (1981)
Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife, and surrealism to tell the story...
Reiwa Uprising (2019)
Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a...
Reiwa Uprising (2019)
Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a...
Reiwa Uprising (2019)
Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a...
Minamata Mandala (2021)
After years of dumping industrial wastes from the factory to the ocean, Chisso Chemical Corporation contaminated the area of a small Japanese fishing...
Reiwa Uprising (2019)
Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a...
How Much Is a Life Worth? (2013)
In Sennan, Osaka, which was one of the largest concentrations of asbestos in Japan, laborers worked in a harsh environment and supported Japan's...
Groper Night Train (1977)
"Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.