Born 1962 (age 63) · Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Appears in 21 titles

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.

Filmography

Midori
6.1
Midori
1992
Director
The Death Lullaby
4.3
The Death Lullaby
1985
Director
Zashikiro
Zashikiro
2025
Director
My Brother Became A Sheep
My Brother Became A Sheep
1981
Director
Limitless Paradise
Limitless Paradise
1981
Director
My Love
My Love
1994
Director
Phantasmagoria Theater
Phantasmagoria Theater
1982
Director
Akatsuki's Reward
Akatsuki's Reward
1979
Director
Horizon Blue
Horizon Blue
2020
Director