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.
Acting
Movie
Shin Godzilla
as Biology Professor
2016
Movie
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
as Himself
1974
Movie
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
as Kato
1996
TV
National Kid
as Tomohiro
1960
Movie
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
as himself
2002
Movie
A Painful Pair
2002
Movie
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky
as man in bar
2025
Crew
Movie
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Director
1987
Movie
The Sea and Poison
Assistant Director
1986
Movie
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Writer
1974
Movie
Death of a Tea Master
Assistant Director
1989
Movie
Pig-Chicken Suicide
Director of Photography
1981
Movie
Goodbye CP
Director
1972
Movie
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin
Director of Photography
1975
Movie
Deep River
First Assistant Director
1995
Movie
A Dedicated Life
Director
1994
Movie
Shikibu monogatari
Assistant Director
1990
Movie
Sex Document: Serial Rapists
Director of Photography
1975
Movie
My Mishima
Director
1999