The Japanese director Kazuo Hara, born in 1945, began his artistic career as a photographer, later departing onto film when influenced by student protests and civilian movements throughout the country. With a career spanning five decades, Hara is one of the most controversial living filmmakers, known for his transgressive documentaries attacking Japanese repressive morale. Acclaimed at festivals around the world, two of his films, The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987) and Extreme Private Eros: Love Song (1974), appear in the British Film Institute’s poll of The 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time. In an interview with Nicolás Carrasco earlier this year, Hara confessed “an innate and deep desire to become a camera”, explaining that, in his work, he regards the camera as his body.