Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 03, 1949
Died
Dec 08, 2025
Place of Birth
Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone
Credits
41 titles
Masato Harada
Biography
Masato Harada is a Japanese film director, film critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to foreign audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless.
Known For
Filmography
Bad Lands
Director
Hell Dogs
Director
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Director
Killing for the Prosecution
Director
Sekigahara
Director
The Emperor in August
Screenplay
Kakekomi
Director
Chronicle of My Mother
Screenplay
Early Autumn
Director
Climber's High
Director
The Shadow Spirit
Director
The Suicide Song
Director
Fearless
Mita
Beat Kids
Writer
Bluestockings
Director
The Last Samurai
Omura
The Choice of Hercules
Director
Inugami
Director
Jubaku: Spellbound
Director
Ring 2
Producer
The Spiral
Producer
Bounce Ko Gals
Director
The President's Christmas Tree
Adaptation
Rowing Through
Director
Trouble-Shooters
Director
Kamikaze Taxi
Director
Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
Director
Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
Director
Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
Screenplay
Tuff Part III - Business Killing
Director
Tuff Part II - Revenge
Screenplay
Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
Writer
Tuff Part I - Origin
Director
Gunhed
Director
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Director
Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
Screenplay
Paris/Dakar 1500
Director
Terra Warrior Ψ BOY
Writer
Out of Focus
Director
Windy Story
Writer
Goodbye, Flickmania
Director