Tadashi Imai
She came to prominence as an actress in the 1937 German-Japanese co-production "Die Tochter des Samurai" ("The Daughter of the Samurai"), known in Japan as "Atarashiki Tsuchi" ("The New Earth"), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami. In the film, Hara plays a woman who unsuccessfully attempts to immolate herself in a volcano. She continued to portray tragic heroines in many of her films until the end of World War II, like "The Suicide Troops of the Watchtower" (1942) and "The Green Mountains" (1949), directed by Tadashi Imai, and "Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky", directed by Kunio Watanabe.