This year’s TIFF event featured a highlight event for Hara’s works, and screened his Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi o Yobu Mōretsu!
Hara worked for years on the Crayon Shin-chan television anime series before garnering critical attention for such films as Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi o Yobu Appare!
Anime director Keiichi Hara said he was wearing a shirt featuring a cat character that will appear in his next work.
Hara also won the Anime d’or prize at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF) in March 2015.