Hiroshi Harada
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 13, 1962
- Birthplace
- Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Hiroshi Harada suffered from bullying during his childhood, a frequent theme in his films. His career as an entertainer began in 1976. Between 1987 and 1992 he worked on the adaptation of Midori: the girl with the camellias, a manga by ero-guro author Suehiro Maruo . Due to the controversy of the film, Harada had trouble financing it and had to do most of the work on his own. Over the years it would become a cult film, as well as being one of the few (if not the only) anime of the ero-guro genre . For the rest of the 90s , Harada remained anonymous using pseudonyms such as Hisaaki Etsu. In 2006 he directed the Humanoid Monster Bem series, the highest-budget play of his career up to that point. In Latin America the series was released by Animax . In 2012 he directed 5 shorts for the anthological series Folktales from Japan which, as its name suggests, adapts popular tales from Japanese culture.
Filmography
Closed Room Coarse Grain Dramatic Art: MAZE TBA
Director
Underground Labyrinth Secret Picture Book: BOO TBA
Director
Zashikiro 2025
Director of Photography, Cinematography, Director, Screenplay, Musician, Editor, Original Music Composer
Horizon Blue 2020
Editor, Sound, Animation, Director
My Love 1994
Cinematography, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Animation, Music
Midori 1992
Executive Producer, Animation, Screenplay, Director
The Death Lullaby 1985
Director, Creator, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Editor, Music, Author
Phantasmagoria Theater 1982
Editor, Writer, Music, Director, Animation, Cinematography
My Brother Became A Sheep 1981
Cinematography, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Director
Limitless Paradise 1981
Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Animation, Music, Director
Akatsuki's Reward 1979
Director of Photography, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Animation, Director
Water, Water 2020
Thanks
Hiroshi Harada, The One-Man Band 2005
as Himself
Lost in Translation 2003
Key Set Production Assistant
Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West 1988
Key Animation
Credits from TMDB.