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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Filmography 17
Shin Godzilla
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
Goodbye CP
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky
A Dedicated Life
The Many Faces of Chika
A Painful Pair
My Mishima
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Reiwa Uprising
Sennan Asbestos Disaster
Minamata Mandala
The Duckling
How Much Is a Life Worth?40 credits on file
Television 1
National KidAwards 3
Connected to Kazuo 6
Yūrei YanagiAlso in Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)
Yoshikazu KotaniAlso in The Many Faces of Chika (2005)
Kanji TsudaAlso in Shin Godzilla (2016)
Yūsuke SugiyamaAlso in Shin Godzilla (2016)
Jun IchikawaAlso in Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)
Haruhiko AraiAlso in The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky (2025)About this person
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. 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.
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