
Person
Masato Hara
Directing · Born 1950-07-15
Biography
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
(uncredited)

A Sad Yet Funny Ballad
Director

SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Director

The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Screenplay

A Man Who Became Cinema
Self

20th Century Nostalgia
Director

Tanzan session
2012

MI • TA • RI!
2002

Yakeato Chronicle
Director
Never Ending Summer
Director
Filmography
- 2022Yakeato ChronicleDirector
- 2018A Man Who Became CinemaSelf
- 2018Futago RekkiMusic
- 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
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