Person
Masato Harada
Directing · 1949–2025 · Numazu, Prefettura di Shizuoka, Giappone
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
The Last Samurai
Omura
Fearless
Mita
The Spiral
Producer
Bounce Ko Gals
Director
Ring 2
Producer
The President's Christmas Tree
Adaptation
Hell Dogs
Director
Beat Kids
Writer
Inugami
Director
Bad Lands
Director
Filmography
- 2023Bad LandsDirector
- 2022Hell DogsDirector
- 2021Baragaki: Unbroken SamuraiDirector
- 2018Killing for the ProsecutionDirector
- 2017SekigaharaDirector
- 2015The Emperor in AugustDirector
- 2015KakekomiDirector
- 2012Chronicle of My MotherDirector
- 2011Early AutumnDirector
- 2008Climber's HighDirector
- 2007The Shadow SpiritDirector
- 2007The Suicide SongDirector
- 2006FearlessMita
- 2005Beat KidsWriter
- 2005BluestockingsDirector
- 2003The Last SamuraiOmura
- 2002The Choice of HerculesDirector
- 2001InugamiDirector
- 1999Jubaku: SpellboundDirector
- 1999Ring 2Producer
- 1998The SpiralProducer
- 1997Bounce Ko GalsDirector
- 1996The President's Christmas TreeAdaptation
- 1996Rowing ThroughDirector
- 1995Trouble-ShootersDirector
- 1995Kamikaze TaxiDirector
- 1994Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical EditionDirector
- 1992Tuff Part V - Killing AnthologyDirector
- 1991Tuff Part IV - Harvest of BloodDirector
- 1991Tuff Part III - Business KillingDirector
- 1991Tuff Part II - RevengeScreenplay
- 1990Monster Heaven: Ghost HeroWriter
- 1990Tuff Part I - OriginDirector
- 1989GunhedDirector
- 1987The Heartbreak YakuzaDirector
- 1986Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!Screenplay
- 1986Paris/Dakar 1500Director
- 1985Terra Warrior Ψ BOYWriter
- 1985Out of FocusDirector
- 1984Windy StoryDirector
- 1979Goodbye, FlickmaniaDirector
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