Kazuo Hara
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 8, 1945
- Place of birth
- Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
Biography
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.
Movies with Kazuo Hara
- Shin Godzilla 2016 · ★ 7.3
- Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 1974 · ★ 6.8
- Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment 1996 · ★ 6.3
- The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky 2025 · ★ 5.3
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions 2002 · ★ 10.0
- A Painful Pair 2002 · ★ 6.0
Movies directed by Kazuo Hara
- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987 · ★ 7.6
- Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 1974 · ★ 6.8
- Goodbye CP 1972 · ★ 7.6
- A Dedicated Life 1994 · ★ 6.2
- My Mishima 1999 · ★ 8.0
- The Many Faces of Chika 2005 · ★ 9.0
- Sennan Asbestos Disaster 2016
- Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art 2023
- Reiwa Uprising 2019
- Minamata Mandala 2021
- How Much Is a Life Worth? 2013