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Kazuo Hara

Japanese documentary filmmaker · Japan · On the map · Directors · Born 1945 · age 81

Kazuo Hara 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.

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A life in dates

2025The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the SkyFilm, man in bar2023Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of ArtFilm, Director2021Minamata MandalaFilm, Director, Producer2019Reiwa UprisingFilm, Director, Producer2016Sennan Asbestos DisasterFilm, Director2013How Much Is a Life Worth?Film, Director2010The DucklingFilm, Producer2002A Painful PairFilm1999My MishimaFilm, Director1996Tokiwa: The Manga ApartmentFilm, Kato1994A Dedicated LifeFilm, Director1988Blue Ribbon Awards for Best DirectorAward1987Directors Guild of Japan New Directors AwardAwardThe Emperor's Naked Army Marches OnFilm, 1987Director1974Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974Film, Director, Writer1972Goodbye CPFilm, Director1960National KidSeries, Tomohiro1945Born8 June 1945

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40 credits on file

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Awards

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director1988
Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award1987
Mainichi Film Award for Best Director

About this person

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.

Country
Japan
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1945 · age 81

In the same film or series as Kazuo

Nagisa ŌshimaAlso in Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002)Rena TanakaAlso in The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky (2025)Takami YoshimotoAlso in The Many Faces of Chika (2005)Yūrei YanagiAlso in Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)Yū KamioAlso in Shin Godzilla (2016)Shinji HiguchiAlso in Shin Godzilla (2016)