Tetsuo Harada

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Harada
France, summer 2019 the Japanese artist Tetsuo Harada has just turned 70 years old. He has spent his life carving works for peace and respect for nature. In his 3000 m 2 workshop, he works tirelessly on new projects. This year, an exhibition is dedicated to him in Niigata, the snow country of the famous novel by Yasunari Kawabata, his native region. But the project that occupies his thoughts is something else, he, who always carve monumental stone works to link countries with each other with his famous Earth Weaving is about to revisit all of his work and career with a new ephemeral installation project: The Peace Weaving.
Sekigahara
Art Direction
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
The Last Ronin
Art Direction
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.
Counterfeit
Art Direction
Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but eventually decides to join the project for the sake of the poor children in the village and her own mentally handicapped child.
Nobunaga's Coffin
Art Direction
Bounty Hunter Vixens: Treasure of Lust
Art Direction
Beautiful bounty hunter Rio (Mai Yanbara) infiltrates a mysterious village filled with criminals to claim a new reward -but the village hides a deadly conspiracy aimed at the seductive vigilante. Lotus (Misaki Mori) uses her sensual black magic to heat things up for the bounty hunter and newcomer Moe Nishimura as Fury, brings all the bandits to their knees with her special brand of sexual sorcery!
The Haunted Lantern
Production Design
Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present
Hissatsu shimatsunin
Art Direction
A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is afoot...
Legend of the Devil
Art Direction
A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family exchange her for the family treasure. The world's greatest swordsman, Shuranosuke Sakaki, is called in to get the sword back.