Masato Hara Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Masato Hara

Masato Hara

Directing

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.

Filmography Movies

Production

SOAR: I Wish You Were Here movie poster
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here

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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Director
A Sad Yet Funny Ballad movie poster
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A Sad Yet Funny Ballad

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A Sad Yet Funny Ballad
Director
MI • TA • RI! movie poster
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MI • TA • RI!

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MI • TA • RI!
Director
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here movie poster
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here

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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Writer
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here movie poster
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here

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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Director of Photography
A Man Who Became Cinema movie poster
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A Man Who Became Cinema

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A Man Who Became Cinema
Original Music Composer
The First Emperor movie poster
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The First Emperor

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The First Emperor
Music
The First Emperor movie poster
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The First Emperor

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The First Emperor
Sound
The First Emperor movie poster
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The First Emperor

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The First Emperor
Editor
The First Emperor movie poster
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The First Emperor

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The First Emperor
Producer

Gallery

Masato Hara portrait