Hiroshi Harada

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 eroguro 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 eroguro 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 highestbudget 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