Masato Hara

Biography

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.

Movies with Masato Hara

• Funeral Parade of Roses 1969 · ★ 7.6
• Tanzan session 2012
• MI • TA • RI! 2002
• A Man Who Became Cinema 2018

Movies directed by Masato Hara

• 20th Century Nostalgia 1997 · ★ 7.1
• SOAR: I Wish You Were Here 2015
• A Sad Yet Funny Ballad 1968
• MI • TA • RI! 2002
• The Eternal Traveller 1995
• Futago Rekki 2018
• Yakeato Chronicle 2022
• Never Ending Summer 1997
• The First Emperor 1973
• 自己表出史「早川義夫」編 1970