The work that a Harrow (原一男 Hara Work, born 8 June 1945) is a Japanese documentary film director. After dropping out of university to work at a special education school, he made his 1972 deb / work Goodbye CP about a group of individuals with cerebral palsy. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th-hoc meet Film Award and at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for The emperor's Naked Army Marche On. That film also earn'ed him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. In 2017 he released the documentary sen something Asbestos Disaster which received the 2017 Audience Award at the Tokyo Filmex International Film Festival and the 2017 BIFF Mecenat Award at the Busan International Film Festival. His documentary works often depict people who push against the boundaries of propriety and obedience in Japanese society.
In 2018 Japan's NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art's collection of works by Katsushika Hokusai so they could film the details of paintings using a state-of-the-art 8K video camera. The resulting documentary is ...
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Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke. Members of Ogawa Pro filmed the student movement ...
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Watch NowWhen his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw, intensely personal documentary as a way to both maintain a connection to the woman he still cared for and to make s ...
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