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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Masato Harada

Harada Masato (1949) started his career as director after being a film critic for a while. His films Heartbreak Yakuza and Kamikaze blew new life into the Japanese gangster genre. Harada is regarded as one of the most versatile of the ‘new generation’ of Japanese directors.

Filmografie

Goodbye Flickmania (1979), Windy (1984), Out of Focus (1985), Paris-Dakar 15000 km (1986), Onyanko: the Movie (1986), Heartbreak Yakuza (1987), Gunhed (1988), Painted Desert (1993), Kamikaze Taxi (1995), Trouble with Nango (1995), Rowing Through (1996), Bounce ko gals/Leaving (1997)

Masato Harada op IFFR

  • Tuff: Part 1

    Masato Harada | 84' | Japan | No premiere

    A violent, surreal gangland tale of a hitman’s rise, from the director of Kamikaze Taxi.

  • Bounce ko gals

    Masato Harada | 109' | Japan | International premiere

    Biting social satire about schoolgirl subculture of the ko gals (= call-girls) characterised by hard, violent big-city realism is also a humorous and