Directing
Masato Harada
JA, ZH, EN cinema · 41 credits
Born
3 July 1949
Died
8 December 2025 (aged 76)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
Bad Lands
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Hell Dogs
Director, Screenplay
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Director, Screenplay
Killing for the Prosecution
Director, Screenplay
Sekigahara
Director, Screenplay
The Emperor in August
Director, Screenplay
Kakekomi
Director, Screenplay
Chronicle of My Mother
Director, Screenplay
Early Autumn
Director, Writer
Climber's High
Director, Screenplay
The Suicide Song
Director, Writer
The Shadow Spirit
Director, Writer
Fearless
as Mita
Bluestockings
Director, Writer
Beat Kids
Writer
The Last Samurai
as Omura
The Choice of Hercules
Director, Screenplay
Inugami
Director, Writer, Screenplay
Ring 2
Producer
Jubaku: Spellbound
Director
The Spiral
Producer
Bounce Ko Gals
Director, Writer
Rowing Through
Director
Kamikaze Taxi
Director, Writer
Trouble-Shooters
Director, Writer
Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
Director, Writer, Producer
Tuff Part V - Killing Anthology
Director, Screenplay
Tuff Part II - Revenge
Screenplay
Tuff Part III - Business Killing
Director, Screenplay
Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
Director, Screenplay
Tuff Part I - Origin
Director, Screenplay
Gunhed
Director, Screenplay
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Director, Screenplay
Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
Screenplay, Director
Paris/Dakar 1500
Director, Writer
Out of Focus
Director
Windy Story
Director, Writer
Goodbye, Flickmania
Director, Screenplay