Masato Hara

Masato Hara Trailers

A Man Who Became Cinema TrailerTanzan session TrailerMI • TA • RI! Trailer

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.

Most Popular Masato Hara Trailers

Total trailers found: 13

Tanzan session Trailer (2012)

01 September 2012

Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine.

Funeral Parade of Roses Trailer (1969)

13 September 1969

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda.

Never Ending Summer Trailer (1997)

01 October 1997

With two people I met on the live screening tour of my previous film The Eternal Traveler, Kaneko Tomokazu (17) and Onuma Ryoko (23), posing as my son and my daughter, the "Road Movie Family" went on voyage in the summer of 1996, taking five cameras with them.

A Sad Yet Funny Ballad Trailer (1968)

01 June 1968

A young man sets out to make a Super 8 film, but isn't sure what the film should be about.

20th Century Nostalgia Trailer (1997)

26 July 1997

A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction.

Futago Rekki Trailer (2018)

06 December 2018

At the age of 63, Masato Hara becomes father to a pair of twin sisters, and for the first time in his life must work part-time jobs to make a living.

The First Emperor Trailer (1973)

11 July 1973

In 1971, Hara Masato and a group or actors started shooting his 16mm film, The First Emperor, based on an old Japanese book about history and myths that is known as the Kojiki ('Record of Ancient Matters').

A Man Who Became Cinema Trailer (2018)

10 December 2018

Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy.

The Eternal Traveller Trailer (1995)

01 October 1995

Filmmaker Masato Hara and his teenage son set off on a road trip, following the route of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North.

MI • TA • RI! Trailer (2002)

18 June 2002

Film director Masato Hara welcomes MAORI as a partner and begins a new life. The two of us routinely turn the 8mm camera and make songs while the days go by.

Yakeato Chronicle Trailer (2022)

01 February 2022

Hara's new film 「焼け跡クロニクル」 is a documentary film about Hara's attempt to rebuild his life from scratch after his house burned down in 2018 and he lost all his household goods and film equipment.

SOAR: I Wish You Were Here Trailer (2015)

31 January 2015

A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in the war, but it is more than that.

The Man Who Left His Will on Film Trailer (1970)

27 June 1970

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide.