Known for

Directing

Born

Jun 8, 1945 (81 years old)

Place of birth

Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Kazuo Hara

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.

Titles

Shin Godzilla

Movie • 2016

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

Movie • 1987

The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

Movie • 2025

The Sea and Poison

Movie • 1986

Death of a Tea Master

Movie • 1989

Deep River

Movie • 1995

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

Movie • 1974

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

Movie • 1996

Mattemashita tenkousei!

Movie • 1985

The Many Faces of Chika

Movie • 2005

A Dedicated Life

Movie • 1994

Sennan Asbestos Disaster

Movie • 2016

Pig-Chicken Suicide

Movie • 1981

Goodbye CP

Movie • 1972

Minamata Mandala

Movie • 2021