Masato Harada

Directing · Writing · Acting · Production

Born July 3, 1949, Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone

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.

Filmography

• 2023Bad Lands — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2022Hell Dogs — Director, Screenplay
• 2021Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai — Director, Screenplay
• 2018Killing for the Prosecution — Director, Screenplay
• 2017Sekigahara — Director, Screenplay
• 2015Kakekomi — Director, Screenplay
• 2015The Emperor in August — Director, Screenplay
• 2012Chronicle of My Mother — Director, Screenplay
• 2011Early Autumn — Director, Writer
• 2008Climber's High — Director, Screenplay
• 2007The Shadow Spirit — Director, Writer
• 2007The Suicide Song — Director, Writer
• 2006Fearless — Mita
• 2005Beat Kids — Writer
• 2005Bluestockings — Director, Writer
• 2003The Last Samurai — Omura
• 2002The Choice of Hercules — Director, Screenplay
• 2001Inugami — Director, Writer, Screenplay
• 1999Jubaku: Spellbound — Director
• 1999Ring 2 — Producer
• 1998The Spiral — Producer
• 1997Bounce Ko Gals — Director, Writer
• 1996Rowing Through — Director
• 1996The President's Christmas Tree — Adaptation
• 1995Kamikaze Taxi — Director, Writer
• 1995Trouble-Shooters — Director, Writer
• 1994Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1992Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology — Director, Screenplay
• 1991Tuff Part II - Revenge — Screenplay
• 1991Tuff Part III - Business Killing — Director, Screenplay
• 1991Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood — Director, Screenplay
• 1990Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero — Writer
• 1990Tuff Part I - Origin — Director, Screenplay
• 1989Gunhed — Director, Screenplay
• 1987The Heartbreak Yakuza — Director, Screenplay
• 1986Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis! — Screenplay, Director
• 1986Paris/Dakar 1500 — Director, Writer
• 1985Out of Focus — Director
• 1985Terra Warrior Ψ BOY — Writer
• 1984Windy Story — Director, Writer
• 1979Goodbye, Flickmania — Director, Screenplay