It is an honour for the Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival to confer the Golden Ring of the 22nd edition on Kazuo Hara, the undisputed master of Japanese cinema, to celebrate his artistic genius and ability to create a filmic grammar in which the languages, archetypes and popular icons of a twilight, anarchic and, at the same time, popular world intermingle and dialogue.
Hara is one of the greatest living documentary filmmakers of oriental cinema, his rebellious and revolutionary eye is the stylistic signature of his works, and it is no coincidence that his style has been defined as "action documentary", marked by creative freedom; reading the plots of reality, the director frees filmic matter, shaping it into a hybrid of contaminations, between distant imaginaries and forms that merge in an anarchic explosion, creating a single body, a free organism phagocytising experiences and narrative drifts.
