The Political Provocations of a Maverick Japanese Documentarian

“I was born in 1945, when democracy was introduced in postwar Japan, so my life has been kind of synchronized with its development in the country. Unfortunately, democracy is still not rooted in the minds of the majority of the people there, and until this changes, I’ll continue to make films.” That was how maverick documentarian Kazuo Hara summarized his career when presenting his newest film Reiwa Uprising at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. [published on Hyperallergic - https://hyperallergic.com/541858/reiwa-uprising-kazuo-hara-doc-fortnight/]