An early documentary to portray the experiences of disabled people with compassion and complexity, Kazuo Hara’s searing debut is also one of the most unflinching films ever made about what it means to be an outsider. Produced in collaboration with the Green Lawn—a group of activists with cerebral palsy who work to raise awareness of the condition—GOODBYE CP blends jagged, shot-on-the-fly footage of the members’ seemingly Sisyphean struggle to take their message to the streets with raw, sometimes confrontational interviews in which they reveal the torment of living in a society cruelly indifferent to their existence. In making his subjects active participants in the film’s creation—a practice he would continue throughout his career—Hara powerfully asserts the humanity and agency of those who have long been denied both.

Goodbye.CP.AKA.Sayonara.CP.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-aTroCiTy.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Synopsis
Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a seat in Japan’s Upper House.

Reiwa Uprising (2019) Kazuo Hara [Part 1].mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 8 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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“Minamata disease” is a neurological disease caused by methylmercury poisoning named for its identification in Kumamoto Prefecture, where industrial wastewater from a Chisso Corporation chemical plant contaminated fish and shellfish consumed by communities around Minamata Bay and the Shiranui Sea. Filmed over 15 years, this sprawling documentary lays out this history of pollution dating back to the 1930s and decades long legal battles against the government for diagnosis certification and reparations. However the film gives itself over to the network of survivors, care providers, and supporters keeping the fight alive, following unexpected chutes and ladders from gregarious researchers’ theories pushing back against an intransigent medical establishment, to the passionate song lyrics of a woman suffering since childhood. Here Hara and Kobayashi return to core commitments of disability rights and individuals’ demands of the state, extending Noriaki Tsuchimoto’s landmark series on the Minamata struggle, and issuing a cry against political apathy.

5.34GB | 6h 10m | 1024×576 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Kazuo Hara – Minamata Mandala (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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 of Chika in order to emphasise the different ways she is perceived by her husband, a teacher, a student and an aging gangster.

1.80GB | 1h 54m | 682×360 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7C5670D61F10808/Mata.no.hi.no.chika.AKA.The.Many.Faces.of.Chika.2005.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On is a brilliant exploration of memory and war guilt, a subject often ignored in modern Japan. In this controversial documentary, Kazuo Hara follows Kenzo Okuzaki in his real-life struggle against Emperor Hirohito. He proudly declares that he shot BBs at the Royal Palace, distributed pornographic images of the Emperor, and once killed a man for the sake of his strange crusade. As the film progresses, Okuzaki reveals a gruesome mystery: why were some Japanese officers killing their own soldiers during WWII? What happened to their bodies? Okuzaki begs, cajoles, and occasionally beats the story out of elderly veterans. When these old men do break down and talk, their testimonies are some of the most chilling, riveting descriptions of wartime desperation ever committed to film. In his desire to unearth these horrors, Okuzaki’s behavior grows increasingly extreme and bizarre. By the film’s end, Hara seems to ask whether the terrible nature of this buried incident is worth the violence of Okuzaki’s methods.
~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

3.64GB | 2h 00mn | 892×594 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/377554796F253D9/Yuki.yukite.shingun.AKA.The.Emperors.Naked.Army.Marches.On.1987.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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An interesting documentary about an interesting man, to say the least. Kazuo Hara follows up his controversial work “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On” with a bio-documentary about Mitsuharu Inoue, a famous and popular (especially among women) post-war Japanese writer. The film follows the last few years of the life of Inoue before he dies of cancer in 1992. The film starts out as a usual bio-documentary like many others, but the second half of the film digs into the writer’s past and comes up with some unexpected discoveries.

1.37GB | 2h 36m | 624×464 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/90BB3096675A3BB/a.dedicated.life.(kazuo.hara.1994).avi
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (idx/sub, srt)

The post Kazuo Hara – Zenshin shosetsuka aka A Dedicated Life (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Ten years in the making, Kazuo Hara’s three-and-a-half-hour-long epic is a longitudinal study of asbestos victims demanding reparations from a heartless state. Hara records the eight-year struggle of the plaintiffs and their lawyers. A dogged and dramatic depiction of their intense battle.

4.30GB | 3h 33mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/BB84456F57875EC/Sennan.Asbestos.Disaster.2016.576p.WEB.AC3.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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