Direction: Kazuo Hara

Direction Kazuo Hara

Cast Kenzo Okuzaki

Plot This documentary was five years in the making, and revolves around 62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo, a survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in World War II who gained notoriety by...

Direction Kazuo Hara

Cast Kazuo Hara · Miyuki Takeda · Sachiko Kobayashi

Plot In 1972, Miyuki tells her ex-lover Kazuo that she's going to Okinawa with their son. Kazuo decides to film her. He narrates his visits to her there: first while her...

Direction Kazuo Hara

Plot Japan’s documentary master, Hara Kazuo, has now documented the lives of the victims of asbestos poisoning in the Sennan area of Osaka over ten years. Some victims and their families...

Direction Kazuo Hara

Cast Hideo Ikoma · Toshiyuki Kawakami · Akio Mizoguchi · Shinobu Sakamoto

Plot In the early 1940s, strange symptoms appear in the people of Minamata. People are having convulsions all over their bodies and tongues are eventually made mute. The government treated those...

Direction Kazuo Hara

Direction Kazuo Hara

Cast Hiroshi Yokota · Kôichi Yokozuka

Plot An intimate documentary about a group of people with cerebral palsy in Japan that confronts our preconceptions and prejudices about who they are, what they feel, and how they view...

Direction Kazuo Hara

Cast Ayumi Yasutomi

Direction Kazuo Hara

Cast Kumi Hirose · Daisuke Iijima · Kumija Kim · Yoshikazu Kotani

Plot Director Kazuo Hara tells the tale of the eponymous Chika and four different relationships she has during the turbulent political climate of the 1970s. Four different actresses play the role...