Person

Masato Hara

Directing · Born 1950-07-15

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.

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  Funeral Parade of Roses

  (uncredited)

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  SOAR: I Wish You Were Here

  Director

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  A Man Who Became Cinema

  Self

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  A Sad Yet Funny Ballad

  Director

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  20th Century Nostalgia

  Director

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  The Man Who Left His Will on Film

  Screenplay

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  MI • TA • RI!

  2002

• Never Ending Summer

  Director

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  Yakeato Chronicle

  Director

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  Tanzan session

  2012

• 2022Yakeato ChronicleDirector
• 2018A Man Who Became CinemaSelf
• 2018Futago RekkiDirector
• 2015SOAR: I Wish You Were HereDirector
• 2012Tanzan session
• 2002MI • TA • RI!
• 1997Never Ending SummerDirector
• 199720th Century NostalgiaDirector
• 1995The Eternal TravellerDirector
• 1973The First EmperorProducer
• 1970The Man Who Left His Will on FilmScreenplay
• 1969Funeral Parade of Roses(uncredited)
• 1968A Sad Yet Funny BalladDirector