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Extreme Lives: The Films of Hara Kazuo

I make bitter films. I hate mainstream society.

— Hara Kazuo

A true radical, Hara Kazuo has produced a series of shockingly personal documents which challenge the mores of postwar Japanese society through stark, revelatory modes of presentation.

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