Keiichi Hara

Sitges Encounters includes talks with great figures of genre cinema participants in this edition.

Born on July 8, 1959  in Tatebayashi, Japan, Keiichi Hara has emerged as a leading figure in the world of Japanese animation. His career took flight as a writer and director of anime in the early eighties, and soon proved to be a master in creating deep and emotional narratives in a medium mostly associated with children's entertainment.

Hara is known for his masterpieces, such as Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: Yakiniku Road of Honor (2003) and Miss Hokusai  (2015), which gained international recognition and showed his ability to explore complex and emotional issues within animation. His influence on Japanese animation cinema is unmistakable, and Keiichi Hara continues to delve into the depths of the human soul through his art, offering a unique insight that has conquered the hearts of animation lovers around the world.