Masato Hara
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 15, 1950
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.
Filmography
Yakeato Chronicle 2022
Director
A Man Who Became Cinema 2018
as Self, Original Music Composer
Futago Rekki 2018
Director of Photography, Music, Writer, Editor, Director
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here 2015
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Tanzan session 2012
Actor
MI • TA • RI! 2002
Actor, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
- Never Ending Summer
Never Ending Summer 1997
Director
20th Century Nostalgia 1997
Director, Screenplay
- The Eternal Traveller
The Eternal Traveller 1995
Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
The First Emperor 1973
Music, Sound, Editor, Producer, Cinematography, Writer, Director
The Man Who Left His Will on Film 1970
Screenplay
- 自己表出史「早川義夫」編
自己表出史「早川義夫」編 1970
Director
Funeral Parade of Roses 1969
as (uncredited), Assistant Director
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad 1968
Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.