Movies: Masato Hara

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. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware...

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. He replicates the...

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

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. It breaks through the existing concept of a film with a beginning, middle, and end, and like Fellini or Godard... Hara...

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....

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 ...

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'). He did not finish the film....

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. Co-produced with Maori Hara, his partner in both public...

Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Many years later, he continues to make films and show his old experimental 'live-screening' films, but is saddled with massive debts. This fil...

Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine....

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....

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. The time between the two will soon be the time for the three with their newborn eldest son...

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