2020 has been a particular good year for documentaries all over the world, as the international political situation along with the pandemic have presented much...
Tag - Kazuo Hara
Since the pandemic did not disrupt the production of films in the Japanese movie industry, at least not as much as in other countries, 2020 was another year...
Ok, I have to admit that when I saw that the documentary was 270 minutes, I thought “what a bother”, and the beginning of the film, where Kazuo...
Conceived by Shôhei Imamura, Kazuo Hara's audacious, deeply unsettling documentary feature follows Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran who has fought...
Tickets are now on sale for JAEFF 2019: Nation! This year's festival will be held at the Barbican Centre, Close-Up Film...
One of Japan's foremost documentary filmmakers, Hara made a remarkable debut in 1972 with Goodbye CP after dropping out of university to work at a special...
“The nail that sticks out shall be hammered down” is nowadays an almost overused proverb to describe the conformity...
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara is currently touring his 2017 film “Sennan Asbestos Disaster,” a somber 3.5-hour long investigation of Asbestos...
One of Japan's foremost documentary filmmakers, Hara made a remarkable debut in 1972 with Goodbye CP after dropping out of university to work at a special...
“The nail that sticks out shall be hammered down” is nowadays an almost overused proverb to describe the conformity of Japanese society. The...