Masato Hara
Directing
- Born
- July 15, 1950 (age 76)
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.
Known for
Funeral Parade of Roses
September 13, 1969
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
June 27, 1970
20th Century Nostalgia
July 26, 1997
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
January 31, 2015
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad
June 1, 1968
MI • TA • RI!
June 18, 2002
A Man Who Became Cinema
December 10, 2018
The First Emperor
July 11, 1973
Futago Rekki
December 6, 2018
Yakeato Chronicle
February 1, 2022
Behind the camera13
- 2022Yakeato Chronicle Director
- 2018A Man Who Became Cinema Original Music Composer
- 2018Futago Rekki Director of Photography, Music, Writer, Editor, Director
- 2015SOAR: I Wish You Were Here Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- 2002MI • TA • RI! Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
- 1997Never Ending Summer Director
- 199720th Century Nostalgia Director, Screenplay
- 1995The Eternal Traveller Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
- 1973The First Emperor Music, Sound, Editor, Producer, Cinematography, Writer, Director