Kazuo Hara
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 8, 1945
- Birthplace
- Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
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.
Filmography
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky 2025
as man in bar
Shin Godzilla: ORTHOchromatic 2023
as Biology Professor
- Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art
Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art 2023
Director
Minamata Mandala 2021
Producer, Director
Reiwa Uprising 2019
Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Cinematography
Shin Godzilla 2016
as Biology Professor
Sennan Asbestos Disaster 2016
Director, Director of Photography
How Much Is a Life Worth? 2013
Director
The Duckling 2010
Executive Producer
The Many Faces of Chika 2005
Director
A Painful Pair 2002
Actor
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions 2002
as himself
My Mishima 1999
Director
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment 1996
as Kato
Deep River 1995
First Assistant Director
A Dedicated Life 1994
Director, Director of Photography
Shikibu monogatari 1990
Assistant Director
Death of a Tea Master 1989
Assistant Director
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987
Director, Director of Photography
The Sea and Poison 1986
Assistant Director
Mattemashita tenkousei! 1985
Assistant Director
Pig-Chicken Suicide 1981
Director of Photography
Child of the Sun 1980
Assistant Director
- Groper Night Train
Groper Night Train 1977
Assistant Director
Poruno repōto: Sex shikakenin 1975
Director of Photography
- Sex Document: Serial Rapists
Sex Document: Serial Rapists 1975
Director of Photography
- Wet and Sweet Pussies
Wet and Sweet Pussies 1974
Director of Photography
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 1974
as Himself, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Goodbye CP 1972
Director, Director of Photography
Credits from TMDB.