Kazuo Hara (原一男 Hara Kazuo, 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 debut work Goodbye CP about a group of individuals with cerebral palsy. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Hochi Film Award and at the 9th Yokohama Film Festival for The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. That film also earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. In 2017 he released the documentary Sennan 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. 原一男(1945년생, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan) 는 감독으로, 대표작으로 천황군대는 진군한다, 레이와 시대의 반란, 극사적 에로스가 있으며, 그 외에도 센난 석면 피해 배상소송, 全身小説家, 치카의 여러 얼굴, 굿바이 CP, Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art, 命て　なんぼなん？　泉南アスベスト禍を闘う, 미나마타 만다라, わたしの見島 등 다양한 작품을 연출했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2025년 별과 달은 하늘의 구멍에서 man in bar 역을 맡았다. 2021년 미나마타 만다라 제작에 참여했다. 2021년 미나마타 만다라 연출을 맡았다.