Hiroshi Harada

Biography

Hiroshi Harada suffered from bullying during his childhood, a frequent theme in his films. His career as an entertainer began in 1976. Between 1987 and 1992 he worked on the adaptation of Midori: the girl with the camellias, a manga by ero-guro author Suehiro Maruo . Due to the controversy of the film, Harada had trouble financing it and had to do most of the work on his own. Over the years it would become a cult film, as well as being one of the few (if not the only) anime of the ero-guro genre . For the rest of the 90s , Harada remained anonymous using pseudonyms such as Hisaaki Etsu. In 2006 he directed the Humanoid Monster Bem series, the highest-budget play of his career up to that point. In Latin America the series was released by Animax . In 2012 he directed 5 shorts for the anthological series Folktales from Japan which, as its name suggests, adapts popular tales from Japanese culture.

Directed

1. Midori (1992) — Director
2. Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (2001) — Director
3. The Death Lullaby (1985) — Director
4. Folktales from Japan (2012) — Director
5. Humanoid Monster Bem (2006) — Director
6. The Marshmallow Times (2004) — Director
7. Zashikiro (2025) — Director
8. My Brother Became A Sheep (1981) — Director
9. Limitless Paradise (1981) — Director
10. My Love (1994) — Director
11. Phantasmagoria Theater (1982) — Director
12. Akatsuki's Reward (1979) — Director
13. Underground Labyrinth Secret Picture Book: BOO — Director
14. Horizon Blue (2020) — Director
15. Closed Room Coarse Grain Dramatic Art: MAZE — Director

Also appeared in

1. Hiroshi Harada, The One-Man Band (2005) — Himself