Masato Hara

Directing Jul 15, 1950 (76 years old)

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.

4 Acting Credits

12 Crew Credits

Masato Hara

Acting

Funeral Parade of Roses

Tanzan session

MI • TA • RI!

A Man Who Became Cinema

Crew

Funeral Parade of Roses

The Man Who Left His Will on Film

20th Century Nostalgia

SOAR: I Wish You Were Here

A Sad Yet Funny Ballad

MI • TA • RI!

A Man Who Became Cinema

The First Emperor

The Eternal Traveller

Futago Rekki

Yakeato Chronicle

Never Ending Summer