About
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 Chronicle2022 · Director
A Man Who Became Cinema2018 · Original Music Composer
Futago Rekki2018 · Music, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here2015 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer
MI • TA • RI!2002 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Never Ending Summer1997 · Director
20th Century Nostalgia1997 · Director, Screenplay
The Eternal Traveller1995 · Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
The First Emperor1973 · Producer, Music, Editor, Sound, Writer, Cinematography, Director
The Man Who Left His Will on Film1970 · Screenplay
Funeral Parade of Roses1969 · Assistant Director
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad1968 · Director, Writer